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| The type of rock that forms when hot, liquid rock cools and hardens |
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| The type of rock that forms when rocks are broken down into smaller pieces that harden into new rock. |
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| When water, Ice, Wind, and Heat break down |
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| When water, Ice, Wind, and Heat break down |
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| The type of rock that forms when heat and pressure squeeze sedimentary rock, but do not melt it. |
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| When water, ice, wind, and gravity drop newly formed sediments |
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| the size, shape and position of minerals in a rock |
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| Individual grains of sedimentary rock are held together. |
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| are formed when magma cools slowly deep inside the earth with large crystals |
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| The compositional layer that makes up most of the Earths mass. |
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| Large slabs of lithosphere that move around on the asthenosphere |
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| Is the liquid core of the earths core |
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| The type of stress in which objects are squeezed together and creates anticlines and scnclines. |
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| the process by which regions of the crust are raised to higher elevations. |
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| Mountians that form when molten rock erupts onto the Earths surface. |
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| The structural layer that is the hard outermost layer of the Earth. |
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| Global Positioning System |
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| Scientists use this to measure the rate of tectonic plate movement . |
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| Is the outermost compositional layer of the Earth. |
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| This helps determine the speed of ssismic waves |
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| These form when rock layers are squeezed together and pushed upward. |
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| This occurs when rock layers bend because of stress in the earths crust. |
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| These occur when rock layers break because of stress from compression or tension. |
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| When rocks are pulled apart by tension. |
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| When rocks are pushed together by compression. |
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