The Earth
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| show | the four planets closest to the sun
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| show | solid, rocky crusts
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| outer planets (except Pluto) | show 🗑
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| show | located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter
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| Asteroid | show 🗑
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| show | made of icy dust particles and frozen gases,look like bright balls with long feathery tails
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| Meteroids | show 🗑
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| show | oceans, lakes, rivers and oter bodies of water. 70% of our planet's surface
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| lithosphere | show 🗑
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| show | a layer of gases estending about 6,000 miles above the earth's surface. The atmosphere is composed of 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen and small amounts of argon and and other gases.
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| biosphere | show 🗑
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| show | the natural features of the earth's surface. The four major landforms are mountains, hills, plateaus, and plains. Others include valleys, canyons, and basins. Landforms often contain rivers, lakes, and streams.
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| show | The part of the continent that extends underwater.
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| show | the highest point on earth, 29,035 feet above sea level
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| Dead Sea shoreline | show 🗑
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| Mariana Trench | show 🗑
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| show | super-hot solid, about 4,000 miles below the surface of the earth. Scientists believe that it is made up of iron and nickel under enormous pressure
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| outer core | show 🗑
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| show | next to the outer core it is a thick layer of hot, dense rock consisting of silicon, aluminum, iron, magnesium, oxygen, and other elements. This mixture continually rises, cools, sinks, warms up, and r ises again, releasing 80% of the heat generated from
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| Crust | show 🗑
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| show | The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart into smaller continents
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| magma | show 🗑
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| plate tectonics | show 🗑
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| show | a sea plate collides with a continental plate. The heavier sea plate dives beneath the lighter continental plate. The sea plate becomes molten lava
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| accretion | show 🗑
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| Spreading | show 🗑
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| show | moving plates sometimes squeeze the surface until it buckles
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| faults | show 🗑
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| show | sudden violent movements of plates along a fault line
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| Ring of fire | show 🗑
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| show | the process that breaks down rocks on the earth's surface into smaller pieces.
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| show | the wearing away of the earth's surface by wind, glaciers, and moving water
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| show | the movement of dust, sand, and soil from one place to another.
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| loess | show 🗑
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| show | large pile of rocks and debris left behind from receding glaciers
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| show | The most significant cause of erosion from fast moving water-rain, rivers, streams, and oceans
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| The Water Cycle | show 🗑
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| Evaporation | show 🗑
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| Condensation | show 🗑
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| Precipitation | show 🗑
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| show | 97% of the earth's water that circles the planet divided into 4 oceans
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| Sea, Gulf, and Bays | show 🗑
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| Desalination | show 🗑
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| show | only 3% of the earth's total water supply, and most is not available for human consumption. More thatn 2% is frozen in glaciers and ice caps. .5% is found beneath the erath's surface
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| show | freshwater that lies beneath the earth's surface, comes from rain and melted snow that filter through the soil and from water that seeps into the ground from lakes and rivers.
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| show | an underground porous rock layer often saturated with water in the form of a stream
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