geology

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the place where two plates come together
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the outer portion of the earth, made mostly of solid rock.
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Is a numerical scale that measures the magnitude of an earthquake
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What is an example of a dome mountain in N. America
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A possible explaination to a scienfitic question
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Mt. St. Helens is what type of volcano?
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Hot molten rock inside the earth
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is where two plates slip past each other moving in opposite directions
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What type of mountains are formed when areas of the Earth's crust fold?
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the earth inner most layer which is made mostly of iron and nickel. it's separated into different zones ( inner and outer)
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an opening in te crust of the earth that ejects lava, gases and ash
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what is the single landmass that scientists believe broke up into todays seven continents 2 million years ago?
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what is an example in N. America of a fault block mountain range
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a trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock
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The Hawaiian Islands are examples of what type of mountains?
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lava that has cooled outside the volcano
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An underground mountain formed by volcanic activity on the ocean floor
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The San Andreas fault is located in which state?
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a theory that states that pieces of the earths lithosphere are in constant, slow motion
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Which type of volcano is the least dangerous and why?
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lava that has cooled inside the volcano or undergroung
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The place where two plates move apart
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Layers of the earth
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resulting or produced by fire
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What hypothesis explains that continents slowly move across Earth's surface?
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A machine that detects and records the intesity of the ground movement such as earthquakes
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Hot molten rock when it reaches earth is called
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The deepest place in the all the oceans in the ___ trench
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What mountains form when the crust bulges upward?
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What is an example of a fold mountain?
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A long, narrow, but very deep depression in the ocean floor where two plates meet. The are the deepest
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the layer of earth found between the crust and the core.
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A frature in the earth's crust
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What type of mountains form when the curst bulges upward?