Geography
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| What is a core | at the center, temperature and pressure are very highdivided into inner and outer core is made up of liquid metal iron and nickel
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| What is a mantle | outside of the core is the mantle, which makes up most of earth’s mass
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| what is the Crust | outer most of earth’s layers it is about 25 miles thick
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| what is magma | liquid rock that is within the earth’s surface
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| what is lava | magma that has reached the earth’s surface
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| what is plate tectonics | explains how forces within the earth create land forms
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| what is Continental Drift | movement of earth’s plates across the mantle (usually at a rate of about one inch per year)
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| what is rift valleys | formed underwater when tectonic plates move apart from one another
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| what is abyssal plains | when ocean floors sink because there is no earth below them, these regions are smooth
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| what is continental shelves | The surfaced that extends under shallow oceans
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| what is Folds | areas of compressed rock that occurs when plates collide with each other
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| what is faults | occurs when rock masses have moved apart and broken away from each other
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| what is Weathering | process by which rocks break and decay over time
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| what is Sediment | the smaller particles of rock, gravel, sand, and mud that weathering breaks rocks into
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| what is erosion | movement of surface material from one location to another, wind water and ice cause this to take place
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| what is a glacier | thick masses of ice also erode rock and moves sediment
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| what is plataeu | an elevated flatland that rises sharply above nearby land on at least one side
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| what is Alluvial fan | sediment eroded from a mountain to the base of the mountain
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| what is delta | accumulated sediment at the opening of an ocean
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