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the type of plate boundary that pushes two pieces of crust together --> <--

What is convergent plate boundary

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the feature that is closest to the shore, where you swim when you go to the beach

What is continental shelf

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the outer most layer of Earth
What is the crust
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This type of sediment is composed of quartz, and is eroded or weathered from land
What is lithogenous sediment
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this type of island forms when a piece of the mainland is broken off and separated by a body of water

What is a barrier island

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the type of plate boundary that pulls two pieces of crust apart <-- -->

What is divergent plate boundary

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the feature that forms ridges that resemble an underwater mountain range
What is mid-ocean ridges
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this layer is composed of two layers, the inner and outer.

What is the core?

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this sediment is primarily found at hydrothermal vents
What is hydrogenous sediments
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the primary difference between a seamount and a volcano/island

seamount-below water line

volcano/island- above water line


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densest type of crust, composed of basalt

What is oceanic crust

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feature that an underwater mountain, has a flat top
What is guyot
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this layer is composed of the crust and the upper part of the mantle

What is lithosphere?

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examples of this sediment are tektites and micrometeorites
What is cosmogenous sediments
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the concept that the present is the key to the past, coined by geologist James Hutton

What is uniformitarianism

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3 ways that you can form a volcano

What are hotspots, rifting, and subduction zone

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the bottom, extremely flat area of the ocean

What is abyssal plain?

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the only layer that is completely liquid

What is the outer core?

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these are the three ways that scientists study sediments
What are grain size, distribution, and origins
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the study of how ocean, atmosphere, and land interactions have produced changes in ocean chemistry, circulation, biology, and climate

What is paleoceanography

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when an oceanic plate and a continental plate meet at a convergent boundary, one plate goes underneath the other plate. the plate that goes underneath is called the what?

What is the subducting plate?

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What are the three types of coral reef formations?

fringing

barrier

atoll

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in what layer do earthquakes occur?

What is the crust/tectonic plates

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this sediment type can be used to determine the relative age of rocks by examining the fossil evidence in them

What is biogenous sediment

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1) The islands of Hawaii are known as what kind of volcanic feature?

2) Are all of Hawaii's volcanoes active?

1) What is hot spot volcanoes

2) No