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The shaking part of Earth's surface that often causes great damage.

What is an earthquake?

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A preserved part or trace of an animal or plant that lived in the past.

What is a fossil?

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Used to describe how rough or smooth something is.

What is texture?

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This is a mixture of sand, silt, clay, rock and humus.

What is soil?

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A mountain with a hole in the top or side that sometimes sends out rocks, ash, lava, etc. in a sudden explosion.

What is a volcano?

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Stacked levels of rocks with different  compositions and fossils deposited over time, with the oldest layers at the bottom and the youngest layers at the top.
What are rock layers?
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This means to hold inside, as soil does with water.

What is retain?

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The top layer of soil that is a mixture of the types of earth.

What is topsoil?

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Melted rock from a volcano.

Lava

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Rock arrangements such as sea stacks, arches, mesas, and gorges, created by weathering, erosion and other natural processes.

What are rock formations?

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This type of soil contains plant and animal remains.

What is humus?

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A component of soil made of SMALL PIECES of rock.

What is gravel?

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Natural phenomena such as erosion and earthquakes that WEAR down landmasses on earth's surface.

What is a destructive force?
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Natural phenomena such as volcanoes, rivers, and weather patterns that BUILD UP landmasses on earth's surface.

What is a constructive force?

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This is a component of soil that is usually red-orange in color and is thick and sticky when wet. 

What is clay?

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This type of soil would be best to plant a garden in.

What is soil that is made mostly of humus?

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Natural phenomena such as volcanoes, rivers, and weather patterns that BUILD UP landmasses on earth's surface.

What is a constructive force?

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Natural phenomena such as erosion and earthquakes that WEAR DOWN landmasses on earth's surface.

What is a destructive force?

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This is a component of soil made by the weathering of rock into TINY grains.

What is sand?

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The GRADUAL wearing down of something by wind, water or other natural forces.

What is erosion?