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| Questão | Responda |
| Peer reveiw | Where expert scientists critically evaluate other scientists' ideas and papers before and after publication |
| Sea floor spreading | The process of forming new ocean floor at oceanic ridges |
| mountain chain | a line of mountains stretching for hundreds or thousands of kilometers. Generally caused by the movement of tectonic plates. |
| The Rock Cycle | Continuing changes in rock material, caused by processes such as erosion, sedimentation, compression and heating. |
| tectonic plates | giant slabs of rock (about 12, comprising crust and upper mantle) that make up the earths outer layer |
| seismic wave | a wave produced by vibrations caused by an earthquake |
| S-Waves | Transverse seismic waves that travel through the earth, produced during earthquake |
| Erosion | The movement of solids at the earths surface (eg. soil, mud, rock) caused by wind,water ,ice ,gravity and living organisms |
| Oceanic ridge | a line of underwater mountains in an ocean, were new seafloor constantly forms. |
| Crust | a rocky layer at the surface of the Earth, 10-40 km deep |
| Continental drift | A theory that describes the extremely slow movements of the continents across the earth |
| Core | The earths core is made mostly from Iron,solid at the centre and liquid outside |
| mantle | a thick layer of rock beneath the earths crust, that extends about halfway to the centre |
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