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Changes to Earth's Surfaces

Chapter 8:  pages 318-351
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Earth's thinnest layer
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Large, flat landform that sometimes has a gently rolling surface
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The shape of all of the landforms in the area
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The dinosaur era
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The era that includes the present
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Causes trees to bend, slams into rocky surfaces to pit and grove rocks
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An area with higher land around it between mountains and hills
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The information about Earth's history that is contained in fossils
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The trilobites/fish era
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An area that is higher than the land around it
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The liquit part of the core at the center of the Earth
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The rock layer below the Earth's crust
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Remains or traces of a plant or animal that lived long ago
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A valley with steep walls
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Water that flows through valleys; they cause big changes over time to Earth's surface
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A large, moving block of ice
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One-celled organism era
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A mountain that forms as lava flows through a crack in Earth's surface
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It forms at the end of rivers where fast-moving water has dropped their rocks and soil when they slow down upon meeting a larger body of water
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The solid center of the Earth that's almost as hot as the Sun; made mostly of iron and nickel
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When living cells are replaced by rock, this kind of fossil forms
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The dropping of bits of rock and soil by a river as it flows
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A flat area higher than the land around it
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The shaking of Earth's surface caused by rocks moving in the crust
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A natural feature on Earth's surface
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A body of land surrounded by water
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Large slabs of rock found in the Earth's crust and upper mantle