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Definition: Rock formed by the cooling and solidification of magma and lava
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Definition: formed by deposition of material at Earths surface and within bodies of water
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Definition: Rock that is changed by extreme heat
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Definition: Idealized cycle of fucks under the earths surface
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Definition: The process that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location to another
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Weathering (Physical and Chemical)
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Definition: Wear away or the change of appearance or texture of something
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Definition: A layer that is most times parallel to the soils crust
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Continental drift
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Definition: The movement of the Earths continents, relative to each other
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Theory of plate techtonics
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Definition: Layer of earth that is divided into a couple dozen of plates
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Abraham Ortielius
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Definition: A Flemish cartographer and geographer,and the creator of the first modern atlas
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Definition: British geologist
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Definition: German polar researcher
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Definition: Large southern continent
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Definition: Large northern continent
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Definition: Geologist and United States Navy officer in World War II. He was also a founding father of the plate tectonic theory
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Definition: Super continent
Sentence: In world history we learn a lot about Pangaea.
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Sea floor spreading
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Definition: A process where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity
Sentence:Sea floor spreading involves the plates under the ocean floor.
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Divergent plate booundaries
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Definition: Boundary where two plates are moving away from each other
Sentence: Divergent plate boundaries causes magma to rise
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Convergent plate booundaries
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Definition:tectonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere move toward one another and collide.
Sentence: The lithosphere and the asthenosphere goes below when being pushed together
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Transform plate boundaries
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Definition:type of fault whose relative motion is predominantly horizontal
Sentence:the two tectonic plates slide against each other.
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Cindercone Volcano
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Definition:steep conical hill of loose pyroclastic fragments
Sentence: the middle of thus kind of volcano is a cylinder
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Definition:volcano usually built almost entirely of fluid magma flows.
Sentence: This volcano produces really strong gasses
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Volcanic Effects on the Lithosphere
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Definition: ash particles would throw up into the atmosphere.
Sentence: The ash particles are from sometimes other volcanos
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Layers of the earth
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Crust
Upper mantle
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Definition:gravitational equilibrium between Earth's crust and mantle
Sentence:The gravitational pull keep the things balanced
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Definition: crack in the Earth's crust
Sentence: these two faults pull away and push together
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Definition: energy that travels through the Earth's layers
Sentence: This energy travels through the earths layers and makes vibrations
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Focus and epicenter
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Definition: long high sea wave
Sentence: In a tsunami the sea extends
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Composite cone volcano
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Definition: volcano built up by many layers
Sentence: this volcano has a kind of convergent boundary
Ex.1: tectonic plates moving up
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