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Fletcher's 6th Grade Earth Science Review

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Definition
Rift   Crustal feature formed at divergent boundaries  
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North American Plate   Continental plate in which the United States are found  
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Volcano   A place where gas, ash and melted rock come out of the ground  
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Seismic   The type of waves produced by earthquakes  
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Geology   The study of the Earth; what it is made of and the processes that effect it  
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Pyroclastic   A type of cloud filled with hot ash, and pieces of rocks from a volcano  
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Transform   The type of plate boundary in which the plates slide past one another  
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Nazca   The Oceanic plate found off the west coast of South America  
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Pangea   The name of the super-continent that may have existed in Earth's past  
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Continental Drift   The theory proposed by Alfred Wegner  
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Convergent   Tectonic plate boundary in which the Plates are colliding  
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Fault   A name given to the place where two tectonic plates meet  
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Subduction   When 2 plates collide and one plate is forced under the other  
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Pacific   The oceanic plate found off the west coast of South America  
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San Andres   Famous fault line that is made of the North American and Pacific plates  
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Antarctic   The Southern most tectonic plate  
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Lava   Magma that reaches the Earth's surface  
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Caldera   A type of hole in the ground produced when a magma chamber collapses  
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Mountains   The geologic action of colliding continental plates produce these  
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Divergent   The type of plate boundary in which the plates are dividing  
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Trenches   The lowest points in the ocean found at Subduction zones  
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Indoaustralian   The tectonic plate that holds Australia  
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Islands   The result of an Oceanic tectonic plate moving over a hot spot  
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Magma Plume   Another name for a hot spot  
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Convection   Hot fluid rising  
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