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| A mountrain ranges on the seeafloor separated by valleys |
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| A long and narrow depression that forms in between peaks alongs the Mide-Ocean Ridge |
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| Convergent Plate Boundary |
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| The boundary where two plates collide |
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| The process when the denser plate dives beneath the continet in a process |
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| The boundary between two plates that are moving apart |
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| The boundary where plates slide horizontally past each other in opposite directions |
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| This is where the weather takes place |
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| This is when air temperature increases with altitude and the air becomes stable |
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| The natural process when certain gases in the atmosphere warm a planet as they absorb and emit infrared radiation |
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| This is the measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles that make up the object |
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| This is the sum of the kinetic energy and the potential energy of all of the particles that make up that object |
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| The energy that is transferred between objects due to a temperature difference between those objects |
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| This is the amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kg of that material by 1 degress |
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| The transfer of thermal energy by collisions between the particles that make up matter |
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| The transfer of thermal eneergy in a fluid by the movements of warmer and cooler fluid |
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| The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves such as light and microwaves. |
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| The material in which thermal energy moves slowly |
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| The sudden movement or vibration of the ground that occurs when rocks slip and slide along enormous cracks in Earth's crust called Faults |
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| A crack in Earth's crust along which rocks move |
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| The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus |
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| A large volume of air with uniform moisture and temperature |
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| The zones air masses act in |
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