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| When plates push together, Convergent Boundaries are formed. When these boundaries come together, what is formed? |
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| What do convergent boundaries make in the oceans? |
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| Extremely deep trenches!!!!!! |
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| What is created when plates move apart? |
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Divergent Boundaries.
And no, Tris and Tobias are not involved here. |
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| What can Divergent boundaries form? |
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| Volcanoes and mid-ocean ridges. |
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| What is lava called before it reaches the Earth's surface? |
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| What forms when plates slide past each other horizontally? |
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| Transform Boundaries are created! |
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| What are the 3 main types of rock? |
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| Metamorphic, Igneous, and Sedimentary. |
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| How are igneous rocks formed? |
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| They are created when lava cools and hardens. |
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| When the weather changes the rock and breaks it down into smaller particles. There are two kinds. Chemical and physical. |
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| Weathered rock and material that is moved by the weather. |
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| How is sedimentary rocked formed? |
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| By minerals and material sitting in water for a very long time. While they're in the water, various things will put pressure on them and after being under these conditions for so long, they become rock. |
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| How are metamorphic rocks formed? |
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| Heat and pressure within the Earth. |
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| What is the hottest layer of the Earth. (It can't be me. I'm hot of course, but I'm not a layer.) |
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| The inner core. The further inside the Earth, the hotter it is. |
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| The top layer of soil. Mixture of humus, soil particles, and other minerals. FULL of nutrients. |
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| The soil directly under the topsoil. |
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| Water retained beneath the surface of the Earth. |
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| Saturated with or full of water. |
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| Movement of soil components, usually by the weather. Can be natural or done by humans. |
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| What is a natural resource? |
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| Things that you can find in nature, and use as well. |
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| What is soil conservation? |
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| Management of soil to prevent it's destruction. |
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| Varying successive crops in a definite order on the same ground, to control weeds and the depleting of soil. |
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| It's where you plow along the curves of a slope. |
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| If the Earth were an apple, the crust would be... |
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| What has to happen before the mantle becomes new crust? |
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| What does subduction mean? |
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| What does gravity pull everything on our planet towards? |
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| The inner core. Or just the core in general. |
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| ALL OF THE PHASES OF THE MOON! In order, GO!!! |
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| New, waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent, new. |
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| Horizontal view of the layers of soil. |
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| Solid material moved by wind and water that settles on the surface of land or the bottom of water. |
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| It is completely solid rock. It is under the C horizon. |
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| The ability to take on a liquid. |
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| Natural, solid substance found in rocks. Each mineral has a specific chemical makeup. |
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| The state or process of rotting; decaying. |
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| The amount of rock or soil that has been laid down in an area. |
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| What is the C horizon also called? |
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| An environment made up of living things. |
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| How long does it take the moon to rotate on it's axis? |
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| How long does it take the moon to revolve around the Earth? |
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| Move in a circle around it's axis. |
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| Move in a circle around a central axis. |
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| Tide in which the difference between the high and low tides are the least. They occur twice a month during the first and last quarter moons. |
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| How often do the tides change, usually?? |
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| Every six hours and 15 minutes or so..? |
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| A tide just after a new or full moon, when there is the greatest difference between high and low water. It occurs twice per lunar cycle. |
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| This is when the water is the highest. This happens twice a day. |
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| When the tides are the lowest. This also happens twice a day. |
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