Geography test chapter 2
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- faulting
- a crack in the earth's surface where two pieces of land have moved in different directions
- continental island
- an island formed near a continent out of the same land mass
- continental drift
- the idea that the continents were once one landmass but at some point drfited apart
- cataclysm
- a violent upheaval or change in the earth's crust
- folding
- a bend in a portion of the earth's crust caused by pressure
- erosion
- the natural breakdown and removal of materials on the earth's surface
- weathering
- the degenerative process that contributes to the breaking up and alteration of rock material
- oceans
- pacific, atlantic, indian, arctic
- continents
- europe, asia, antartica, africa, north america, south america, australia
- uniformitarianism
- the belief that only those forces that are presently acting on the earth have shaped the earth in the past