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Science:Chapter 1

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seismic waves   indirect evidence to study Earth's inside, caused by earthquakes  
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pressure   result from a force pressing on an area  
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crust   the layer of rock that forms Earth's outer skin  
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granite   a rock that usually is a light color and has a coarse texture; forms the continental crust  
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basalt   dark rock with fine texture; forms the oceanic  
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mantle   a layer of hot rock  
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lithosphere   the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust together  
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asthenosphere   a soft, solid layer  
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outer core   a layer of molten metal that surrounds the inner core  
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inner core   a dense ball of solid metal  
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radiation   the transfer of energy through space  
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conduction   heat transfer within a material or between material that are touching  
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convection   heat transfer by the movement of currents within a fluid  
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density   a measure of how much mass there is in a volume of a substance  
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convection currents   the flow that transfers heat within a fluid  
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Earths magnetic felid   the liquid outer core causes the solid inner core to spin faster than Earth's rotation  
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continental drift   Wegener's idea that the continents slowly moved over Earth's surface  
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Pangaea   when the continents came together and created an supercontinent  
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fossil   any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock  
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mid-ocean ridge   a long line of big mountias  
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sonar   a device that bounces sound waves off underwater objects and then records the echoes of these sound waves  
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sea-floor spreading   continually adds new material to the ocean floor  
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deep-ocean trenches   deep underwater canyons  
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subduction   the process in which ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle  
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plates   cracks in the continents which separates the lithosphere into different sections  
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scientific theory   a well tested concept that explains a wide range of observations  
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plate tectonics   states that pieces of earths lithosphere are in slow constant motion created by convection currents in the mantle  
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faults   breaks in earths crust where rocks have slipped past each other form along these boundaries  
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diversion boundary   the place where two plates move apart or diverge  
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rift valley   a deep valley  
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convergent boundary   the place where two plates come together or converge  
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transform boundary   a place where two plates slip past each other moving in opposite directions  
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