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vocabulary U2L6&7

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earthquakes   ground movements that occur when blocks of rock in the Earth move suddenly and release energy  
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focus   a place within the Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs there  
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epicenter   directly above the focus on Earth's surface  
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tectonic plate   giant sections of the lithosphere on Earth's surface  
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fault   a break in the Earth's crust along which blocks or rock move  
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deformation   the process by which rock becomes deformed and changes shape due to stress  
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elastic rebound   return of rock to its original shape after elastic deformation  
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volcano   any place where gas, ash or melted rock come out of the ground  
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magma   melted rock that is less dense than solid rock  
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lava   magma that has reached the Earth's surface  
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hot spot   location where a column of extremely hot mantle rock called a mantle plume rises through the asthenosphere  
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tectonic plate boundary   where two or more tectonic plates meet  
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vent   opening of a volcano  
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