Plate Tectonics and Rock Cycling Vocabulary CMS
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| Shaking of the ground | earthquake
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| Strength of an earthquake | magnitude
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| The point on Earth’s surface directly above where an earthquake occurred | epicenter
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| A series of mountains connected by high ground |
Mountain Range
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| How deep or far down into the earth an earthquake is occurring | Earthquake depth
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| Loose earth materials, such as sand, soil, and rocks; found on the surface of earth | sediment
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| Two things or events happening together or at the same time but not causing each other | correlation
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| A type of rock formed when layers of sediment are compressed by heavy layers of sediment above | Sedimentary rock
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| A large fracture all the way through the solid bedrock | Fault line
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| Plate material containing denser basalt rock that is usually found under the ocean | Oceanic crust
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| The reason something has happened or is happening | causation
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| Plate material containing less dense granite usually found underground on our continental land | Continental crust
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| Solid rock found everywhere on the earth, often under sediments, such as soil, sand, dirt and broken rocks | bedrock
Oceanic crust
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| To cause damage or to destroy | deconstructive
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| Liquidy rock found below or within the Earth’s crust | magma
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| Breaking down of rock on Earth’s surface | weathering
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| To build up | constructive
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| Liquidy rock that flows out of a volcano and onto the earth’s surface | lava
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| Rising up of Earth’s surface | uplift
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| The moving around of weathered rock (sediment) | erosion
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| The section of the crust between an earthquake line | plate
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| Under the crust where it is hot and rock begins to melt, move and shift | mantle
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| The surface of the earth | crust
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| The laying down of sediment in a new location | deposition
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