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Plate Tectonics
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A hot, liquid rock layer of earth | Mantle |
| The idea that plates are moving | Continental drift |
| The name given to the "super- continent", when all land masses were joined | Pangea |
| These currents, deep within the mantle, fuel the movement of the plates | Convection |
| When two plates push against one another, causing a bulge in the crust | Folding |
| The solid center of the earth | Core |
| The highest of the landforms | Mountains |
| Slow moving rivers of ice | Glaciers |
| Areas of low, flat land | Plains |
| The Earth's oceans and lands move on segments of the crust called? | Plates |
| A fan-shaped piece of land at the mouth of a river | Delta |
| Raised flat land | Plateau |
| The breaking down of a rock into pieces due to wind water or ice | Weathering |
| The pieces of rock and sand that get washed away | Sediment |
| The process by which the pieces of rock and sand get washed away | Erosion |
| When the sun is over the tropic of Cancer and Capricorn | Solstice |
| When the sun is directly above the equator | Equinox |
| Earth's path (egg shaped) | Orbit |
| This takes 24 hours to complete one turn around on Earth's axis | Rotation |
| Takes 365 1/4 days | Revoulution |
| Sun is the universe center | Heliocentric |
| Earth is the solar system center | Geocentric |
| Huge section of Earth's crust | Plate |
| Imaginary line going pole to pole | Axis |
| Thick layer around core | Mantle |
| point where plate boundaries collide | subduction |