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Vocabulary
Earth's Structure
Internal Forces
Geologic History
Landforms
100
Study of the earth's physical structure and history
What is Geology
100
Earth's physical structure and history
What is geology
100
Molten rock inside the earth
What is lava
100
NOT solid as a rock
What is outer shell
100
usually a rocky,snow capped part of the earth's surface that is elevated
What is mountains
200
the result after it bends and buckle
What is fold
200
Thought to be dense and solid
What is inner core
200
A mountain or hill having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are or have been erupted from the earth's crust
What are Volcanoes
200
have broken apart, rejoined, and moved to other parts of the globe
What is earth's landmasses
200
An extremely large body of water on the earth's surface, there are 4
What is ocean
300
volcanoes circling the pacific ocean
What is ring of fire
300
thin like frosting on a cake
What is crust
300
Rock layers that bend and buckle.
What is a fold
300
the north american plate stretches from the mid-atlantic ocean to the northern tip of
What is japan
300
a flowing body of water that empties into a larger body of water
What is river
400
the earth's outer layer is broken into a number of moving plates
What is plate tectonics
400
The large landmasses in the oceans.
What is Continents
400
breaking in the earth's crust
What is faults
400
in the 1960's it began to be widely accepted
What is plate tectonic theory
400
a body of water bigger but slightly similar to a pond
What is lake
500
the theory that states: there was once a single "supercontinent"
What is Continental drift theory
500
The difference in elevation between the highest and lowest points.
What is relief
500
Involves the movement of magma inside the earth.
What is volcanism
500
180 moillion years ago it began to break upinto separte continents
What is pangaea
500
a landform that spews magma from its top
What is volcano