Inside Earth Vocab

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Earth's inner core is

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a dense ball of solid metal.

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Heat transfer in a fluid occurs by:

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convection currents

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Order of Earth's layers from surface:

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Crust, mantle, outer core, inner core.

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Name of the ancient supercontinent?

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Pangaea

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Type of plate boundary where folded mountains form?

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Convergent boundary

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Find at a transform boundary:

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Earthquakes

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Find at convergent boundary of continental crust:

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Mountain

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Formation of a subduction zone creates a ______.

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Volcano

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Subduction zone formation

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One tectonic plate sinks below another.

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Outermost and thinnest layer of the earth is the _______.

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crust