Ch. 1 Section 1 Earths Interior
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| Geoligist | A scientist who studies the forces that make and shape planet earth
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| Rock | The material that comes from Earth's hard surface.
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| Geology | The study of planet Earth.
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| Constructive Force | Shape Earth's surface by building up mountains and land masses.
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| destructive forces | Destroys and wears away landmasses through a process like erosion and weathering.
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| continent | one of Earth's seven large land area's.
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| seismic wave | a ground vibration produced by an earthquake.
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| pressure | the force pushing on a surface or area.
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| crust | The outermost layer of solid rock that includes both dry land and the ocean floor. The thinnest layer of the Earth.
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| basalt | A dark, dense, igneous rock, found in oceanic crust.
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| granite | the most abundant rock in the continental crust.
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| mantle | The thick layer of hot rock between Earth's crust and core that convection currents.
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| Lithosphere | The crust and upper mantle of the Earth that is solid and rigid.
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| asthenosphere | the soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats.
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| outer core | a layer of molten (melted) metal, mainly nickel and iron, that surronds Earth's inner core.
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| inner core | A solid shpere of iron and nickel at the center of the Earth
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