Plate Tectonics

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Layers of rock in the earth are called:

Soil

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Sediments

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Strata

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Dirt

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Strata

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What do the different layers of earth give us information about?

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The plants and animals that may have lived long ago.

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The type of rock where most fossils are found: Metamorphic, Pumice, Igneous, Sedimentary

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Sedimentary

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Where is the oldest layer of rock found?

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At the bottom

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The breakdown or change of earth's surface due to weather conditions: Erosion, Weathering, Sedimentation, Volcanoes

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Weathering

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The Earth's surface being worn away and bits of rock and soil being carried away and deposited elsewhere is called:

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Erosion

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What happens when freezing water gets inside cracks in rocks?

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Expand and shatter

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The movement of earth's plates that moved our continents into different places is called:
- Sedimentation
- Continental Drift
- Oceanic Shift
- Rolling Plates

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Continental Drift

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The name for plates pushing against each other causing mountains to form is called:

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Convergent Boundaries

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The boundary where two tectonic plates are moving away from each other forming new crust is called:

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Divergent Boundary

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