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Amplify Unit 2 Plate Motion

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analyze   to examine in detail for a purpose  
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continent   any of Earth's main continuous areas of land, such as Africa, Asia, and North America  
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convergent   moving toward the same place  
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cross section   a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like  
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divergent   moving apart in different directions  
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earthquake   a sudden shaking of Earth's surface  
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eruption   the sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano  
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fossil   evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints  
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geyser   a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground  
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landform   a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune  
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lava   hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth  
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magma   hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth  
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mantle   the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates  
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Mesosaurus   an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago  
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mid-ocean ridge   an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart  
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model   an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see  
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outer layer   Earth's outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water  
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pattern   something we observe to be similar over and over again  
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plate   one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth's outer layer  
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plate boundary   the place where two plates meet  
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rate   a measure of how often or fast something happens  
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rifting   the slow pulling apart of land that is caused by plate movement  
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surface   the outside or top layer of something  
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system   a set of interacting parts forming a complex whole  
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trench   a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together  
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volcanic activity   any of the many processes (such as eruptions and lava flows) in which gas, lava, and ash are pushed out on the surface of Earth  
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paleontologist   a scientist who studies fossils and ancient life  
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Pangaea   a large, ancient landmass that contained of all the present-day continents  
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