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  1. The outer layer of earth
    Crust
  2. The layer between the core and the crust
    Mantle
  3. The deepest layer of earth
    Core
  4. The outer layer above the crust
    Lithosphere
  5. A soft layer that tectonic plates float on
    Asthenosphere
  6. The lowest part of the mantle
    Mesosphere
  7. Plates that are on top of the asthenosphere
    Tectonic plates
  8. A hypothesis showing the earth was once all one big piece
    Continental drift
  9. A theory of tectonic plates
    Plate tectonic
  10. When two plates collide
    Convert boundary
  11. When two plates separate
    Divergentboundary
  12. A prosess in which the sea floor is spreading
    Sea-floor spreading
  13. When two plates pase each other
    Transform boundary
  14. Stress when an object is squeezed
    Compression
  15. Stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object
    Tension
  16. When rocks bend
    Folding
  17. The rising of rocks
    Uplift
  18. Sinking of rocks
    Subsidence
  19. A break in a body of rock
    Fault
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