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What is the name of the area along the coast of continents where earthquakes and volcanoes occur?

Ring of Fire

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What are the two ways that calcite forms in the ocean?

Chemical reaction (animals breathe carbon dioxide into water and it forms a precipitate) and shells break down

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Which layer of Earth is labeled A in the diagram?

Inner core

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What type of environment does shale form in?

Swamp/ muddy, still water

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What type of plate boundary forms mountains as uplift happens?

Convergent

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Why do the plates move?

Convection currents in the mantle move the magma around and the plates get moved with it because they sit on top of the mantle

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What happens at a transform boundary as plates slide past each other?

Earthquakes, faults

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THROWBACK: Which type of landform is created as sand is deposited in a fan-like shape at the mouth of a river?

Delta

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THROWBACK: Which type of landform is shown in the image?

plateau

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THROWBACK: What is the name for vertical distance above sea level?

Elevation

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Which type of rock is shown in the image?

Limestone

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Which layer is the outer core?

C

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Which type of plate boundary is shown in the image?

Transform

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How does igneous rock form?

From lava or magma cooling and hardening

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