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Huge glaciers everywhere
Cirques
Stars
Ice Age
Orogeny
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What classifies an igneous rock?
Intrusive rock
3 Types of Rocks
Troposphere
Extrusive rock
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What is occurring while the seafloor is spreading
Caldera
Minerals
Rifting
Orogeny
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Made by volcanic action
Faults
Mountains
Dome Mountains
Minerals
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What is it called when two parallel plates grind against each other
Transform Faults
Reverse faults
Dip-slip fault
Kuiper Belt
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What are the remains of glacial souces in a round shape called?
Eras
Comets
Dikes
Cirques
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Made by high temperatures and pressure
Meteoroids
Metamorphic rock
Stratosphere
Exosphere
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Volcanoes with explosive eruptions
Cinder-cone volcanoes
Intrusive rock
Ice Age
3 Types of Volcanic Mts.
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This may form because of subduction. It may cause a volcano
Cirques
Trence
Sill
Orogeny
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What are the Himalayas?
Comets
Dormant Volcano
Folded Mountains
Shield Volcanoes
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Shield Volcanoes, Cinder-cone Volcanoes, and Composite Volcanoes are what?
3 types of rocks
Phases of the moon
3 types of Volcanic Mts.
Supernova
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What are layerd rocks called
Sedimentary rocks
Stars
Divergence
Strike-Slip faults
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Where is the OZONE layer?
Ionosphere
Atmosphere
Stratosphere
Quasar
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_____ is vertical and horizontal movements
Quasar
Plates
Sill
Oblique-slip vaults
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What are old lava tubes formed when magma entered verticle fracture and hardened
Faults
Stars
Cirques
Dikes
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What is it called when an oceanic plate slides under a continental plate?
Nebula
New moon
Solstices
Subduction
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______ extends to space
Troposhere
Thermosphere
Exosphere
Stratosphere
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What is an Igneous Rock?
Trench
Intrusive Rock
Extrusive Rock
Igneous Rocks
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What is formed by the collapse of the top of a volcano
Caldera
Cirques
Dikes
Orogeny
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Built by lava flows and ash/cinder
Composite
Dormant volcano
Ionosphere
Minerals
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Eons, eras, periods, epochs
Passage of Time
Parts of the Sun
3 Types of Volcanic Mts.
Spring tides
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Signals of volcanic activity
Orogeny
Dormant volcano
Black Holes
Mountain formation
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How to determine Earths age
Meteorids
Caldera
Stratosphere
Stratigraphy
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Non-living rocks/ores
Meteoroids
Minerals
Comets
Mountains
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What is the upper part of the thermosphere called
Plates
Pulsar
Ionosphere
Exosphere
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Horizontal movement between plates.
Oblique-slip faults
Spring tides
Troposphere
Strike-Slip faults
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What is the belt of active volcanoes in the Pacific ocean called?
Thermosphere
Rifting
Ring of Fire
Neap Tides
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What is it called when crust collides with another oceanic/continental plate
Caldera
Comets
Trench
Convergence
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The act of magma failing to break through the crust is...
Upwarped Mountains
Dome mountains
Meteoroids
Deposition
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Tallest mountain range in the world
Plates
Minerals
Stars
Himilayas
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What is the lower part of the thermosphere called?
Thermosphere
Mesosphere
Ionosphere
Troposphere
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What are volcanoes with quiet eruptions called?
Full moon
Divergence
Supernova
Shield volcanoes
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What is it called when an Iceberg drops off all the sediment it carries?
Deposition
Subduction
Ionosphere
Luminosity
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What are Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere called (In order)?
Stratosphere
4 layers of the atmosphere
Troposphere
Ionosphere
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Rigid block of crust and upper mantle
Plates
Neap Tides
Nebula
Comets
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Igneous Rock
Neap Tides
Himilayas
Lava Cools
Volcanic Mts
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What is the theory that explains the moving of the continents?
Asteroids
Plate Tectonics
Lava Cools
Meteorites
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These are caused by tention in the crust
Eras
Comets
Sill
Faults
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Closest part to Eath's surface
Quasar
Atmosphere dry gasses (4)
Thermosphere
Troposphere
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What are rocks made from magma called?
Lava cools
Solstices
Meteoroides
Igneous Rocks
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The colder the higher
Mesmosphere
Troposphere
Ionosphere
Exosphere
