Chapter 4 Vocabulary
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Core | Earth's center, where pressures and temperatures are very high.
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Mantle | The section of Earth's interior that lies above the outer core and has the most mass.
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Magma | Liquid rock within Earth.
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Plate Tectonics | The theory that Earth's crust is divided into rigid plates that slowly move across the upper mantle.
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Continental Drift | The process by which Earth's plates slowly move across the upper mantle.
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Rift Valleys | Places on Earth's surface surface where the crust stretches until it breaks.
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Abyssal Plains | Areas of the ocean floor where rocks gradually sink because they have no supporting heat below them; the world's flattest and smoothest regions.
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Continental Shelves | Areas where continental surfaces extend under the shallow ocean water around the continents.
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Trench | A deep valley marking a collision of plates, where one plate slides under another.
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Folds | Places where rocks have been compressed into bends by colliding plates.
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Faults | Places where rock masses have been broken apart and are moving away from each other.
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Weathering | The process by which rocks break and decay over time.
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Sediment | Small particles of weathered rock.
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Erosion | Movement of surface material from one location to another by water, wind, and ice.
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Glaciers | Thick masses of ice including great ice sheets and bodies of ice that flow down mountains like slow rivers.
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Plateau | An elevated flatland that rises sharply above nearby land on at least on one side.
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Alluvial Fan | Fan-shaped deposit of mud and gravel often found along the bases of mountains.
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Delta | Accumulation of sediment at the mouth of a river.
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Desalinization | Process of removing salt from ocean water.
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Hydrologic Cycle | Movement of water through the hydrosphere.
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Head Waters | First and smallest streams formed from the runoff of a mountain eventually forming rivers.
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Tributary | Any smaller stream or river that flows into a larger stream or river.
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Watershed | The entire region drained by a river and its tributaries.
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Estuaries | Semi-enclosed bodies of water, seawater, and freshwater formed where a river meets an inlet of the sea.
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Wetlands | Landscapes that are covered with water for at least part of the year.
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Groundwater | Water found below ground.
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Water Table | The groundwater level at which all the cracks and spaces in rock are filled with water.
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Humus | Broken-down plant and animal matter in soil.
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Leaching | Downward movement of minerals and humus in soils.
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Contour Plowing | Plowing fields across a hill, rather than up and down the hill.
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Soil Exhaustion | A condition in which soil has lost nutrients and becomes nearly useless for farming.
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Crop Rotation | The practice of planting different crops in a field in alternating years.
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Irrigation | A process in which water is artificially supplied to the land.
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Soil Salinization | Salt build-up in the soil.
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Deforestation | Destruction or loss of forests.
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