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Geology   The study of earth and its origin history  
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Inner Core   earth's inner core earth's innermost part and is a primary solid ball  
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outer core   Fourteen to eighteen hundred miles from earths center  
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mantle   Semi solid rock  
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Crust   A large block of tabular section of the lithosphere  
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Tectonic Plates   like jigsaw puzzle pieces  
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Continental drift   The gradual movement of earths continents toward or away from each other  
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Pangaea   Supercontinent  
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Divergent   Place where plates move apart  
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Convergent   Place where plates collide  
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Transform   Place where plates slide past each other  
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Weathering   The breaking down of earths lithosphere by of wind ice plants and chemical changes  
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Principle of uniformity   The process that changed the world and still changing  
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Chemical weathering   Process that affects mineral composition  
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Mechanical weathering   The break down of rock into smaller pieces  
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Subsurface   Below the surface  
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Anticline   The upward fold in rocks  
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Syncline   The downward fold in rocks  
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Fault   Split of crust  
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Plateau   Flat area of land  
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Epicenter   The point on the surface where the earthquake is first felt  
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Focus   The point where an earthquake starts  
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Seismic wave   Waves that travels out from an earthquake  
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Primary waves   The first and fastest seismic wave  
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Surface wave   The slowest wave on surface also  
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Secondary wave   The Escondido fastest seismic wave  
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Volcano   Are the area on earths surface through which magma and volcanic gasses pass  
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Magma   Molten material beneath the earths crust  
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Magma chamber   A body rock deep underground that feeds a volcano  
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Lava   The molten fluid rock issues volcano or volcanic vent  
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Vents   A opening at the surface of one earth could volcanic material passes  
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Pyroclastic flow   Are produced when enormous amounts of ash dust and gases are ejected from a volcano  
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Viscosity viscous   The state or quality of being viscous  
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Rock Cycle   Is a group of changes between rocks.  
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Erosion   the process which wind water ice or gravity transports soil and sediment form one location to another.  
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Deposition   the process in which material is laid down.  
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Met-amorphous rock   Rock that was once one formed and now have changed to another by heat and pressure.  
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Igneous Rock   rocks formed by cooling of lava and magma.  
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Sedimentary rocks   Rocks formed through deposition and sediments in layers.  
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Extrusive igneous rocks   Rocks that form as a result of volcanic activity at or near the earths surface.  
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Intrusive igneous rocks   rock formed from the cooling and solidification of magma beneath the earths surface  
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strata   layers  
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Index Minerals   Used to estimate the temperature and depth and the which a rock goes under metamorphism\  
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foliated   The texture of metamorphism rock in which the mineral grains are arranged in planes or bands  
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nonfoliated   The texture of metamorphic rock in which the mineral grains are not arranged in planes or bands  
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