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Grade Earth
Vocabulary
Ms. Thornburg’s
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What do we call the theory of
how Earth’s continents move
over its surface?
Continental drift
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What do we call the process
of breaking rock into soil,
sand, and other tiny pieces?
Weathering
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What do we call a shaking of
the ground caused by the
sudden release of energy in
Earth’s crust?
Earthquake
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What do we call the process
of dropping, or depositing,
sediment in a new location?
Deposition
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What do we call the process
of moving sediment from one
place to another?
Erosion
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What do we call a
mountain formed by lava
and ash?
Volcano
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What do we call molten
rock from Earth’s mantle?
Magma
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What do we call a break or
place where pieces of Earth’s
crust move?
Fault
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What do we call a
supercontinent containing all
of Earth’s land that existed
about 225 million years ago?
Pangea
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What do we call the center of
the Earth?
Core
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What do we call a physical
feature of Earth’s surface?
Landform
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What do we call a rigid block
of crust and upper mantle
rock?
Plate
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What do we call the downhill
movement of rock and soil
because of gravity?
Mass movement
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What do we call the layer of
rock beneath Earth’s crust?
Mantle
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What do we call the remains
or traces of past life found in
sedimentary rock?
Fossils
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What do we call the thin,
outer layer of Earth?
Crust
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