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NITROGEN CYCLE
• The movement of nitrogen from the nonliving environment into living things and back
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WATER CYCLE
• The continuous movement of water through the atmosphere, the ground, bodies of water, and living things
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CARBON CYCLE
• The movement of carbon from the nonliving environment into living things and back
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POLLUTION
• The presence of harmful of unwanted levels of substances in the environment
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ROCK CYCLE
• The continual process by which new rock is formed from old roc k material
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LITHOSPHERE
• “Rock Sphere” – the cool, rigid, outermost layer of the Earth that is divided into pieces called tectonic plates
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IGNEOUS
• Rock that forms when hot, liquid rock cools and hardens
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SEDIMENTARY
• Rock that forms when pieces of rocks or minerals are “glued” together
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METAMORPHIC
• Rock that forms when existing rock is heated and squeezed deep inside the Earth
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UPLIFTING
• The rising of regions of Earth’s crust to higher elevations
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WEATHERING
• The process by which water, ice, wind, and heat act to break down rocks
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EROSION
• The process by which wind, water, ice, and gravity remove and transport material from one place to another
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DEPOSITION
• Process by which sediments are deposited/dropped in a new location
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LAVA
• Magma that reaches the Earth’s surface
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MAGMA
• Hot, liquid rock material
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THEORY OF CONTINENTAL DRIFT
• The theory that continents can drift apart from one another and have done so in the past
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THEORY OF PLATE TECTONICS
• The theory that the lithosphere is divided into tectonic plates that move around on top of the asthenosphere
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CONVERGENT BOUNDARY
• The boundary between two colliding tectonic plates
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DIVERGENT BOUNDARY
• The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
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TRANSFORM BOUNDARY
• The boundary between two tectonic plates that are sliding past each other
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SUBDUCTION
• When oceanic lithosphere sinks down into the asthenosphere at a convergent boundary
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TECTONIC PLATE
• Huge pieces of the lithosphere that move around on top of the asthenosphere.
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CONVECTION CURRENTS
• The circular motion of liquids or gases caused by density differences that result from temperature differences
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FAULT
• The type of strain that occurs when rocks break because of stress
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FOLD
• They type of strain that occurs when rocks bend because of stress
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NORMAL FAULT
• A fault in which the hanging wall moves down because of tension.
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REVERSE FAULT
• A fault in which the hanging wall moves up because of compression.
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STRIKE-SLIP FAULT
• A fault in which the plates move horizontally past each other because of shearing.
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TENSION
• A force that causes rocks to be pulled apart
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COMPRESSION
• The type of stress in which an object is squeezed, as when two plates collide
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SHEARING
• A force that causes rocks to slide horizontally past each other
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