Earth Science Vocabulary

These landforms rise high above the ground. They are created by a constructive process.

• Delta

• Sand Dune

• Glacier

• Mountain

When one plate gets pushed under another plate and it melts into the mantle.

• Subduction

• Subtraction

• Submarine

• Subway

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The edge of the Earth's plates

• Fault

• Boundary

• End

• Edge

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The hottest center layer of the Earth and it is solid.

• Crust

• Mantle

• Inner core

• Center

The warm and soft middle layer of the Earth.

• Crust

• Mantle

• Inner Core

• Outer Core

The coolest and thinnest layer of the Earth.

• Crust

• Mantle

• Inner Core

• Outer Core

Earth's surface is made of rocky plates, that move.

• Plate Tectonics

• Plate Movement

• Ring of Fire

• Continent Movement

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the super-continent when all 7 continents were once joined together.

• Pangea

• Asia

• Big Bang Theory

• Mega-Land

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A trace of an ancient animal or plant that has been preserved (kept) in rock.

• Fossil

• Bones

• Old Stuff

• Pangea

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What is the definition of Pangea?

•   The world's 7 main land masses.

• The very slow movement of the continents.

• The movement of large sections of Earth's surface

• An ancient supercontinent.

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