Question 1

Matter is made up of tiny particles called?

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atoms and molecules

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kinetic and potential energy

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protons and electrons

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pure substances and mixtures

Question 2

Moving particles have what kind of kinetic energy?

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Thermal Energy

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Potential Energy

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Radiant Energy

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Kinetic Energy

Question 3

What is Temperature?

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A measure of the Thermal Energy in an object

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A measure of the Electrical Energy in an object

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A measure of the Mechanical Energy in an object

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A measure of the Potential Energy in an object

Question 4

What is Thermal Energy?

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The motion of particles in an object

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The motion of electrons in an object

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The entire motion of an object

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Anything that is hot, but not cold

Question 5

Why you feel heat when you touch something hot.

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Thermal energy always moves hot to cold so the thermal energy moves into your finger.

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Thermal energy always moves cold to hot so the thermal energy moves out of your finger.

Question 6

Why you feel cold when you touch something cold.

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Thermal energy always moves hot to cold so the heat from your hand movesleaves your hand and moves into the cold object.

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Thermal energy always moves from cold to hot so the cold moves from the object into your hand.

Question 7

What are the three ways heat is transferred?

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Conduction, Convection, Radiation

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Transformation, Conversion, Conduction

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Conduction, Nuclear, Elastic

Question 8

What is Conduction?

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The transfer of heat by touching two things together

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The transfer of heat by light energy hitting and vibrating molecules

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The transfer of heat by hot molecules rising and cold molecules sinking

Question 9

What is a conductor?

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Substances that easily carry thermal or electric energy

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Substances that can carry electric energy but not thermal energy.

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Substances that stop the movement of thermal or electric energy

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Substances that can carry thermal energy but not electric energy

Question 10

What is an insulator?

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Substances that DO NOT easily transfer thermal or electric energy

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Substances that easily carry thermal energy, but not electric energy

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Substances that easily carry electric or thermal energy

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Substances that easily carry electric energy, but not thermal energy

Question 11

Examples of conductors

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anything made of metal like copper, gold, silver, steel

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rubber, clothe, wood, plastic

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water, alcohol, oil

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oxygen, hydrogen, helium

Question 12

Examples of insulators

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rubber, plastic, wood, styrofoam

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gold, iron, copper

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magnesium, lead, silver

Question 13

What is Convection?

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Hot gasses and liquids rise and Cold gasses and liquids sink

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Light hitting and vibrating the molecules of an object

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Touching something to transfer thermal energy

Question 14

What is Radiation?

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electromagnetic (light) waves hitting an object and making its molecules vibrate

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Hot gases or liquids rising. Cold gases or liquids sinking.

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A hot object touching a cold object and making the molecules vibrate

Question 15

Examples of types of Radiation

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Light waves like visible light, infared, ultraviolet, and microwaves hitting something and warming it up

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Hot objects touching something and burning it

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Hot air from a heater rising to the ceiling, Cold air from an air conditioner sinking to the floor

Question 16

Ocean currents, Weather fronts, Plate Tectonics

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Examples of Convection Currents happening

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Examples of Radiation happening

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Examples of Conduction happening

Question 17

Fire warming up hands, Skin getting sunburned, toaster making toast from bread

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Examples of radiation happening

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Examples of conduction happening

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Examples of convection happening

Question 18

You burn your hand because you touch the handle of a pan that has been heating on a stove. The ice cube feels cold when you touch it

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Examples of conduction happening

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Examples of radiation happening

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Examples of convection happening

Question 19

What is this a picture of?

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conduction

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convection

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radiation

Question 20

What is this a picture of?

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convection current

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radiation

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conduction

Question 21

What is this a picture of?

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radiation

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convection

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conduction

Question 22

Energy resources that cannot be easily replaced and will eventually be used up.

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Nonrenewable resources

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Recyclable resources

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Kinetic resources

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Renewable resources

Question 23

Energy Resource that can be easily replaced.

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Renewable resource

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Nonrenewable resources

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Limited resources

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Unlimited resources

Question 24

Something that is burned for energy

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fuel

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battery

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food

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thermal energy

Question 25

Nonrenewable sources of energy such as coal oil and natural gas that form from dead plants that were buried millions of years ago.

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Fossil fuels

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Combustible energy

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Unlimited fuels

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Renewable fuels

Question 26

Coal: Renewable or Nonrenewable?

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Nonrenewable

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Renewable

Question 27

Oil: Renewable or Nonrenewable?

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Nonrenewable

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Renewable

Question 28

Natural Gas: Renewable or Nonrenewable?

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Nonrenewable

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Renewable

Question 29

Solar Energy: Renewable or Nonrenewable?

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Renewable

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Nonrenewable

Question 30

Wind Energy: Renewable or Nonrenewable?

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Renewable

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Nonrenewable

Question 31

Hydroelectric Energy: Renewable or Nonrenewable?

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Renewable

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Nonrenewable

Question 32

Renewable Energy from heat in the Earth's crust.

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Renewable

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Nonrenewable

Question 33

Biomass Energy: Renewable or Nonrenewable?

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Renewable

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Nonrenewable

Question 34

Nuclear Energy: Renewable or Nonrenewable?

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Nonrenewable

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Renewable

Question 35

Magnet moves by coiled wire - electrons (electricity) moves through wire

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How a Generator works

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How a Turbine works

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How a Motor works

Question 36

Create thermal energy - Heat boils water - water becomes steam - steam turns turbine - turbine turns generator - generator makes electricity

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How most power plants create electricity

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How most solar panels create electricity

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How most wind turbines create electricity

Question 37

The theory that the earth is broken into plates and are in motion due to convection currents in the mantle

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Plate Tectonics

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Seismic Theory

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Convection Theory

Question 38

The super continent which contained all the plates together

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Pangea

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Middle Earth

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Eurasia

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Panamerica

Question 39

The thin and solid outermost layer of the Earth above the mantle

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Crust

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Asthenosphere

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Outer Core

Question 40

The solid, outer layer of the Earth that consists of the the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle

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Lithosphere

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Outer Core

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Lower Mantle

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Asthenosphere

Question 41

The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally

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Transform Boundary

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Convergent Boundary

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Divergent Boundary

Question 42

The boundary formed by the collision of two plates

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Convergent Boundary

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Transform Boundary

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Divergent Boundary

Question 43

The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other

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Divergent Boundary

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Convergent Boundary

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Transform Boundary

Question 44

The rising of heated mantle and sinking of cooled mantle that causes the tectonic plates to move

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Convection Currents

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Circular Currents

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Conduction Currents

Question 45

an underwater CHAIN OF VOLCANOES made at DIVERGENT PLATE boundaries

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Volcanic Ridge

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Divergent Ridge

Question 46

Formed from rising magma at convergent and divergent boundaries

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Volcano

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Transform Fault

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

Question 47

A shaking or sliding of the ground caused by the movement of tectonic plates

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Earthquake

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Mid-Ocean Ridge

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Subduction

Question 48

The type of crust that primarily contains granite is less dense, very thick and never sinks into the mantle.

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Continental Crust

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Oceanic Crust

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Lithospheric Crust

Question 49

Thinner, more dense crust that can sink into the mantle at convergent boundaries.

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Oceanic crust

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Lithospheric Crust

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Continental Crust

Question 50

A feature of the Earth formed at a CONVERGENT BOUNDARY from CONTINENTAL CRUST being pushed upward.

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Mountain

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Volcano

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Subduction Zone

Question 51

A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of Earth

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Inner Core

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Crust

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Outer Core

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Mantle

Question 52

the liquid iron layer of the Earth's core that surrounds the inner core

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Outer Core

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Mantle

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Crust

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Inner Core

Question 53

The middle layer of the Earth that is made of solid rock that can still move because of heat and pressure.

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Mantle

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Crust

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Inner Core

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Outer Core

Question 54

A large piece of the Earth's CRUST that can fit together with other pieces of crust like puzzle pieces.

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Tectonic Plate

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Lithosphere

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Asthenosphere

Question 55

Convection Currents Rise and Move Away form each other.

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Direction of Convection Currents that form Divergent Boundaries

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Direction of Convection Currents that form Transform Boundaries

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Direction of Convection Currents that form Convergent Boundaries

Question 56

Convection currents Move Towards each other and Sink.

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Direction of Convection Currents that form Convergent Boundaries

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Direction of Convection Currents that form Transform Boundaries

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Direction of Convection Currents that form Divergent Boundaries

Question 57

A break in the Earth's crust along which the crust moves.

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Fault

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Epicenter

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Subduction Zone

Question 58

What happens at a Transform Boundary

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You'll only see a fault line and feel earthquakes

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You'll only see mountains

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You'll see volcanoes and mountains

Question 59

What happens at a convergent boundary between continental crust and continental crust

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You'll see giant mountains at the boundary

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You'll see a fault line and feel earthquakes

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You'll see mountains and volcanoes

Question 60

What happens at a divergent boundary forming between oceanic crust

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You'll see a mid-ocean ridge, volcanoes and earthquakes at this boundary

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You'll see a fault line and feel earthquakes

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You'll see underwater mountains

Question 61

What happens at a convergent boundary between ocean crust and continental crust

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You'll see mountains and volcanoes

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You'll see a mid-ocean ridge

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You'll see a fault line and feel earthquakes

Question 62

What ocean crust always does at a convergent boundary

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Sinks and gets recycled into the mantle

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Pulls apart and forms a volcanic mid-ocean ridge

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Rises and forms mountains

Question 63

a naturally-occurring, solid mixture of one or more minerals

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rock

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compound

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element

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sediment

Question 64

Any solid molecules that make rock

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minerals

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salts

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elements

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