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| The thin outer layer of the earth |
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| The middle layer of the earth |
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| The space around a magnetic withhin the force of the magnet exerted |
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| The space around a magnet where the effects are felt |
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| A chain of mountains under the ocean |
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| A place where plates interact and make up the crust and upper mantle |
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| The process by which new ocean floor is continually being formed as magma rises to the surface |
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| One of the slabs that make up Earths crust and upper mantle. |
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| Theory of Continental Drift |
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| The theory that the continents once formed a single landmass and that the continents are still moving along currents in the Earth’s mantle |
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| Theory of Plate Tectonics |
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| The theory that earths lithosphere is broken up into enormous slabs that are in motion. |
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| The supercontinent from which current continents are thought to have broken off |
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| The part of a continent that sits underwater |
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| Movement of the Earth caused when two pieces of the Earth’s crust rub against each other |
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| Molten rock from the Earth’s core |
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| A device used to study magnetic fields |
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