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Journey Into The Earth
Abbreviations
All about Rocks
Continents
Ends in sphere
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Three main layers of the earth
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What are the core, mantle and crust?
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Forces from within the earth which cause
landforms to change.
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What are tectonic?
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Forces like sun, wind and water that change the
landforms on Earth.
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What are gradational?
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Melted rock.
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What is magma?
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Moho
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What is the layer that separates the crust from
the mantle?
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Continental crust is composed mostly of granite
rocks and is called.
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What is SIAL?
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The inner core is supposed to be made of this
element-Fe.
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What is iron?
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Oceanic crust is composed mostly of dense
basaltic rock called.
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What is SIMA?
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3 types of plate boundaries-TF, RA, SZ.
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What are Transform Fault, Ridge-Axis and
Subduction Zone boundaries?
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The man responsible for the theory of sea-floor
spreading.
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Who is Harry Hess?
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The two main types of igneous rocks.
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What are intrusive and extrusive?
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These types of rocks are formed from the cooling
of magma.
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What are igneous rocks?
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These are the two types of metamorphic rocks.
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What are contact and dynamic?
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This type of sedimentary rock is made up from
broken pieces of other rocks compacted together.
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What are clastic sedimentary rocks?
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The banding of rock minerals commonly found in
metamorphic rocks.
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What is foliation?
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The continent we live in.
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What is North America?
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Iceland is located on top of two plate
boundaries-name them.
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What are the North American and Eurasian plates?
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The continent which includes the country of
Austrailia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
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What is Oceania?
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The name for the supercontinent which consisted
of all land 200 million years ago.
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What is Pangaea?
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This type of plate boundary is located on
the west coast of Canada and involves the Pacific
plate and the North American plate.
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What is a subduction zone?
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The land component of the earth.
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What is the lithosphere?
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The water component of the Earth.
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What is hydrosphere?
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These things comprise the biosphere.
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What are the lithosphere, hydrosphere and
atmosphere?
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The soft, brittle plates of the lithosphere ride
on the slowly moving
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What is the asthenosphere?
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The component of the earth that we need to
breathe.
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What is the atmosphere?