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What is a landform?
A physical feature on Earth's surface.
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What is an earthquake?
The sudden movement of Earth's crust.
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What are features on the ocean floor?
Trenches, rift valleys, and abyssal plains are all this.
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What is acid rain?
This causes chemical weathering.
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What is the ocean basin?
The largest landform beneath the ocean.
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What is a geologist?
A scientist who studies the structure and history of Earth.
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What is a fault?
A crack in Earth's crust.
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What is asthenosphere?
The part of Earth made of rock that is close to its boiling point.
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What is studies the Earth's structure and history?
A geologist does this.
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What is the Ring of Fire?
This is around the Pacific Ocean Plate where many volcanoes erupt.
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What is a volcano?
An opening in Earth's crust out of which magma flow.
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What is magnitude?
The measure of the amount of energy released.
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What is liquid metal?
The Earth's outer core is made of this.
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What is continental drift?
Animal fossils, the shape of coastlines, and the age and type of mountains all explain that this happened.
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What is where one plate pushes under another?
Volcanoes tend to erupt at these places.
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What is lava?
A material that comes up through Earth's surface and hardens.
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What is erosion?
The movement of pieces of weathered rock from one place to another.
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What is a cinder-cone volcano?
This volcano has layers.
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What is compression?
The force that occurs when plates are pushed together.
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What is a caldera?
This forms when a volcano erupts.
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What is a hot spot?
An unmoving pool of magma below the Earth's crust.
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What is continental drift?
The reason why two landforms so far apart that have matching fossils and rock can be related.
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What is a tsunami?
A giant wave caused by an earthquake under the ocean.
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What is shear?
The force that twists, tears, or pushes one part of the crust past another.
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What are the Aleutian Islands?
These are an example of an island arc.
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