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| What are individual features of the Earth's surface? |
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| What are the three parts 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 unbrocken shell but is made up of moving plates or huge slads 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, and slide past one another |
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| What is a crack in the Earth's crust? |
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| What is a violent jolt caused by shifts along a fault in the Earth's crust? |
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| What are huge waves caused by undersea earthquakes? |
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| What is the air surronding 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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| This causes 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: firey burst of ashes and rocks 2- flat: slow lava flows |
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| What is the breaking of the 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 surronded 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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