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EARTH SCIENCE VOCABULARY

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EARTH SCIENCE VOCABULARY Part I: Rocks and Minerals

  1. Mineral
  2. Fossil
  3. Hardness
  4. Gemstone
  5. Bedrock
  6. Crystal
  7. Clast
  8. Fracture
  9. Streak
  10. Soil
  11. Rock
  12. Luster
  13. Ore
  14. Silicate
  15. Cleavage
  16. Cementation
  17. Foliated
  18. Nonfoliated
  19. Compaction
  20. Basaltic
  21. Granitic
  22. Sediment
  23. Lava
  24. Deposition
  25. Sedimentary Rock
  26. Rock Cycle
  27. Igneous Rock
  28. Intrusive
  29. Density
  30. Specific Gravity
  31. Erosion
  32. Extrusive
  33. Metamorphic Rock
  34. Weathering
  35. Magma

 

EARTH SCIENCE VOCABULARY Part II: Plate Tectonics & Vulcanism

  1. El Nino
  2. Epicenter
  3. Continental Drift Theory
  4. Continental Crust
  5. Fault
  6. Focus
  7. Fold
  8. Collisional Boundary
  9. Abyssal Plain
  10. Convergent boundary
  11. Divergent boundary
  12. Transform boundary
  13. Hemisphere
  14. Isthmus
  15. Latitude
  16. Continent
  17. Legend
  18. Longitude
  19. Marine Chronometer
  20. Mid-Ocean Ridges
  21. Nautical Mile
  22. Oceanic Crust
  23. Oceanic Trench
  24. Outcrop
  25. Pillow Lava
  26. Plutonic
  27. Precipitation
  28. Stratum
  29. Subduction
  30. The Theory of Plate Tectonics
  31. Tectonic Plates
  32. Terrestrial
  33. Transcontinental
  34. Volcanic
  35. Seafloor spreading