changes in the Earth
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- The downhill movement of rock and soil because of gravity
- mass movement
- Hot, soft rock from Earth's lower mantle
- magma
- The process of breaking rock into soil, sand, or other tiny pieces
- weathering
- A shaking of the ground caused by the sudden release of energy in Earth's crust
- earthquake
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An opening in
Earth's crust through which lava flows - volcano
- The layer of rock beneath Earth's crust
- mantle
- The process of dropping, or depositing, sediment in a new location
- Deposition
- The theory of how Earth's continents mover over its surface
- continental drift
- The process of moving sediment from one place to another
- erosion
- According to theory, this was a "supercontinent" that contained all of Earth's land about 225 million years ago
- Pangea
- A rigid block of crust and upper mantle
- plate
- The remains or traces of past life found in Earth's crust
- fossils
- The outer layer of Earth made of solid rock
- crust
- A physical feature of Earth's surface
- landform
- A place where pieces of Earth's crust move
- fault