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crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
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Layers of the Earth
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Divergent plate (sea floor spreading), Convergent plate (two plates colliding generating pressure), and Transform fault (plates moving sideways past each other, causing seismic activity)
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The three types of plate boundaries
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crust, mantle, outer core, inner core
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Divergent plate (sea floor spreading), Convergent plate (two plates colliding generating pressure), and Transform fault (plates moving sideways past each other, causing seismic activity)
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When plates move over hotspots and heat from the rising mantle plume melts the crust
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The sudden movement or vibration of Earth's crust, occurs when stress overcomes a locked fault, releasing stored, potential energy
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the creation of mountains, island arcs, earthquakes and volcanoes
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seafloor spreading, rift valleys, volcanoes and earthquakes
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earthquakes
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caused by atmospheric convention currents (cells) and Coriolis Effect (how we predict the weather)
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Falls; because it more dense
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rises; less dense
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the process by which the temperature of an air mass decreases (less pressure) as the air mass rises and expands
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The effect of Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and currents.
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some areas are randomly more active than others
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Igneous, Sedimentary, Metamorphic
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Igneous: formed directly from magma
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a graphic explanation of the proportions of sand, silt, and clay in soil
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(1) Parent material, (2) climate, (3) topography, (4) organisms, and (5) time
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parent material is weathered, transported, and deposited
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Overuse by agriculture or whenever the topsoil or vegetation is removed from the soil.
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composition and organic material
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O horizon- made of decomposing organisms/humus
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the rock material from which the inorganic components of soil are derived.
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winds or water
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Fungi, bacteria, and protozoan account for 80-90 percent of soil's productivity and can break down organic material.
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Permeability and the order of particle size: sand, silt, then clay.
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Ability of rock or soil to allow water to flow through it
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Acidity that can be neutralized by base material (calcium, magnesium, sodium, and potassium)
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3%
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97%
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70%
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Amazon, Congo, and Yangtze
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The uppermost at which groundwater fully saturates rock or soil.
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Pavement or buildings that do not allow water penetration, especially in urban areas.
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Rapid pumping that draws down the water table and leads to lessening pressure and saltwater infiltration.
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obtaining fresh water from salt water (removing the salt).
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The amount of rock, sand, silt, and clay in a soil sample.
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Allowing water and roots to move between the particles.
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can protect water quality as soils effectively filter and clean water that moves through them
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measure of how much water a particular amount of soil can hold
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Organisms that eat dead and decaying organic matter.
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Contains the crust and upper mantle.. "plates for continents and oceans"
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Containing magma (molten rock).
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Outer mantle of semi-molten, ductile, flexible rock. "converter belt for plates"
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thermal energy (heat) from the mantle.
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asthenosphere
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The most dense elements are in the center, called the core.
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oceanic and continental crust.
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The formation of new ocean crust as a result of magma pushing upward and outward from Earth's mantle to the surface.
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The boundary between two oceanic plates that are moving away from each other to form new ocean crust
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2 oceanic crust moves away from each other > divergent boundary > zone of divergence >rift valley >shield volcanoes erupting basalt > new crust
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A major belt of volcanic activity that rims the Pacific Ocean caused by oceanic - continental plates at convergent boundary overlapping
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A tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, come together, or crash into each other.
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Subduction occurs here when oceanic and the continental plates collide and the oceanic plate bends and slides into the mantle
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When two oceanic plates collide and one is pushed under the other causing magma to rise and a volcano forms
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when two continental plates collide, mountain ranges are created as the colliding crust is compressed and pushed upward (ex: the Himalayas)
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Boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other.
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Volcanoes.
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The pacific plate is large and is contacting many other plates moving in various directions.
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New ocean floor is created (*seafloor spreading*)
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convergent boundaries.
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An element with properties that allow it to conduct electricity and heat energy, and to perform other important functions.
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A concentrated accumulation of minerals from which economically valuable materials can be extracted.
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State that Earth's lithosphere is broken into huge, moving slabs of rock driven by motions in the mantle (asthenosphere) and this motion caused geological events.
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The formation, movement, and subduction of Earth's plates. As well as the changes in land masses such as Pangea.
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the topsoil layer that is a zone of overlying organic material and underlying mineral material
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Subsoil
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partially weathered bedrock
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parent material
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Made mostly of leaf litter and humus
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The process that breaks down rock through chemical changes
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Breaking down rocks through physical processes like freezing and thawing
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sand
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triangle
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75-80% of earths mass (most dense-closest to earth)
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11km to 50km
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50-80km above Earth's surface
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Hot layer: Oxygen absorb solar energy
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international space station
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temperature gradients
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Nitrogen - makes up 78%
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Oxygen - makes up 21%
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the most intense solar radiation arriving at the equator, resulting in density differences and the Coriolis effect
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incoming solar radiation; Earth's main source of energy and is dependent on season and latitude
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the angle of the sun's rays; due to the shape of the Earth (sphere), the latitude that is directly horizontal to the solar radiation receives the most intensity
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equator; decreases towards the poles
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seasons
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geologic and geographic factors such as mountains and ocean temperatures
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A dry area on the downwind side of a mountain. becomes drier because a higher elevation area blocks precipitation from reaching the land
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an irregularly occurring and complex series of climatic changes affecting the equatorial Pacific region and beyond every few years, characterized by the appearance of unusually warm, nutrient-poor water off northern Peru and Ecuador, typically in late December.
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A cooling of the ocean surface off the western coast of South America, occurring periodically every 4 to 12 years and affecting Pacific and other weather patterns.
