geography chapter two
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
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| what is the planets in order from closest to the sun? | mercury, Venus, earth, mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
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| what are asteroids? | are small, irregularly,shaped, planets like objects.
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| what are comets? | made of icy dust particles and frozen gases, look like bright ball with long feathery tails.
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| what are meteoroids? | chunks of rock and iron
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| hydrosphere | oceans, lakes, rivers and other bodies of water make up part of the earth.
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| lithosphere | the earths crust.
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| atmosphere | layer of gases extending above the planets surface.
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| biosphere | part of the earth that supports life
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| core | at the very center of the planet is super hot but solid
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| mantle | a thick layer of hot, dense rock
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| crust | a rocky shell forming the earths surface
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| continental drift | the theory that the continents were once joined and the slowly drifted apart
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| Pangaea | one gigantic super continent
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| plate tectonics | refers to all the physical processes that create many of the earths physical features
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| subduction | the heavier sea plates dives beneath the lighter continental plate
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| spreading | sea plates also can pull apart in a process
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| faulting | occurs when the folded land cannot be bent any further
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| faults | plates may grind or slide past each other, creating cracks in the earths crust
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| ring of fire | one of the most famous earth quake
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