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Tectonic Plates
The central part of the earth
The crust and the top of the upper mantle
Tectonic Plates
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The crust and the top of the upper mantle
inner core
landform
lithosphere
hydrosphere
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The central part of the earth
core
astenosphere
crust
mantle
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Physical features on earths surface.
hydrosphere
outer core
inner core
landform
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Hot melted rock
igneous rock
mantle
magma
plate tectonics
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deep cracks in the earth
layers
crust
faults
magma
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All of earths liquid and solid water makes up the....
core
mantle
hydrosphere
landform
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Thin layer of solid rock that makes up the outer most layer of the Earth.
crust
lithosphere
asthenosphere
core
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deep cracks in Earth’s crust where rocks move in opposite directions
tension
compression
faults
cracks
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when one of Earth's plates can sink under the other one
subduction
abduction
production
compression
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occurs when a continental plate is compressed and the ground is forced upward
mid-ocean ridges
seafloor spreading
fault block mountains
folded mountains
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underwater mountain ranges
fault block mountains
folded mountains
faults
mid-ocean ridges
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a stretch or push
seafloor spreading
compression
subduction
tension
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occurs when one block of rock moves to the other block of rock
ice block
fault block mountains
folded mountains
faults
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a scientist who examines rocks
archeologist
geologist
scientist
botonist
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means “whole Earth” or “all lands”
landform
pageant
pangaea
pigment
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when the upward movement of magma moves the seafloor apart and separates the plates
mid-ocean ridges
seafloor spreading
mountains
folded mountains
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This geologist came up with the theory of continental drift.
Alfred Wegener
Albert Einstein
Alfred Wegmann
Eli Whitney
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a squeezing or pushing together of the crust
compression
faults
tension
subduction
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The upper mantle that is partly rock
asthenosphere
hydrosphere
landform
crust
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an idea by Alfred Wegener that states that years ago the Earth was a supercontinent
plate tectonics
continental drift
fault block mountains
supercontinent
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The thickest layer of solid and molten rock that surrounds the core.
crust
igneous rock
mantle
hydrosphere
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A scientific theory that the earth's crust is made of moving plates
hydrosphere
plate tectonics
landform
mantle
