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| What are individual features of the Earth's surface called? |
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| What are the three sections of the inside of the Earth? |
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The inner core is ___________________
and the outer core is ________________. |
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solid;
melted, liquid metal |
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| What is the most studied layer of the Earth? |
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| What is the theory that the crust is not an unbroken shell but is made up of moving plates or huge slabs of rock? |
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| What are the three types of earthquakes? |
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Those that:
pull apart
push against each other
slide past one another |
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| What is a crack in the Earth's crust called? |
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| What are huge waves caused by undersea earhtquakes? |
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| What is caused when magma breaks through the crust as lava? |
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| What are the two types of volcanoes? Describe each. |
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1) cone-shaped: fiery burst of ashes and rock
2) flat: slow lava flows |
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| What is the breaking of surface rocks by water, chemicals, and frost? |
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| What is the wearing away of the surface by water, wind, and ice? |
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| What are high peaks with steep or rugged slopes? |
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| What are lower, more rounded peaks? |
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| What is a high, flat area that rises above the land around it? |
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| What is a narrow piece of land that connects two larger pieces of land? |
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| What is a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides? |
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| What is a narrow body of water between two pieces of land? |
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| What is the air surrounding the earth? |
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| What is the atmosphere made up of? |
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| What three things does the atmosphere do for us? |
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1) screens out dangerous rays from the sun
2) reflects some heat back into space
3) holds in enough heat to make life possible |
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