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