Earth Science Review

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What is the process of continents slowly moving due to convection called?

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Continental Drift

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How are volcanoes formed?

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Magma pushes up through Earth's crust.

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What does the Ring of Fire refer to?

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The volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean.

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In what type of rock are fossils most commonly found?

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Sedimentary rock.

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Where is new plate material forming?

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At the boundary where the two plates are pulling apart.

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What is the Earth's outer layer called?

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The Crust.

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What is the layer of the Earth beneath the crust?

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The Mantle.

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What is the term for the movement of tectonic plates?

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Plate Tectonics.

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What is a tectonic plate?

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A massive, irregularly shaped slab of solid rock that makes up the Earth's lithosphere.

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What is subduction?

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The process where one tectonic plate moves under another and sinks into the mantle.