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The outer layer of earth
Crust
The layer between the core and the crust
Mantle
The deepest layer of earth
Core
The outer layer above the crust
Lithosphere
A soft layer that tectonic plates float on
Asthenosphere
The lowest part of the mantle
Mesosphere
Plates that are on top of the asthenosphere
Tectonic plates
A hypothesis showing the earth was once all one big piece
Continental drift
A theory of tectonic plates
Plate tectonic
When two plates collide
Convert boundary
When two plates separate
Divergentboundary
A prosess in which the sea floor is spreading
Sea-floor spreading
When two plates pase each other
Transform boundary
Stress when an object is squeezed
Compression
Stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object
Tension
When rocks bend
Folding
The rising of rocks
Uplift
Sinking of rocks
Subsidence
A break in a body of rock
Fault
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12/9/2013, 11:18:21 PM
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