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| melted rock forming substance inside the earth's mantle. |
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| the magma that reaches the surface of the earth. |
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| a type of igeous rock that cools slowly and has large crystals.(inside) |
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| a type of ignoeus tock that cools quickly and has small crystals(outside) |
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| a large mostly flat region on the ocean floor. |
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| an undersea volcanic mountian found on the ocean floor |
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| the proess by witch one lithospheric plate is forces under another |
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| a sttream of water that flows deep beneath the ocean's surface |
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| the way earth's rotation affects wind and ocean currents. |
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| a periodic change in oceanic and atmosphere condition causing unusually warm surface water. |
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| the movemment of cold cold ocean water to the ocean surface |
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| the quality of having two oppsite poles one posivity and one neative. |
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| rocks change in a perdictable pattern known as the rock cycle. |
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| was partly shaped by the continental drift theory. |
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| the measure of how compact matter is where mass is campared to volume. |
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| affects and global climates |
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| rocks form when magma or lava cools and hardens |
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| forms when small pieces of other rock minerals plandts and animals are deposited in lauers typically as a result of weatherig and ersion |
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| forms when larhe amiunts of heat and presser are applied to other rocks types. |
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| The crust and the upper mantel |
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| occur when two plates pull apart |
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| Relieves some tension on the lithospheric plates as they slide past one another. |
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