Chapter 2- Earth's Core & Earth's Land
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 uniformitarianism | scientist who believe the earth, what is now, must be the way things were back in the past; unwillingness to recognize the existence of a creator |
| cataclysm | is a violent upheaval or change in the earth's crust, especially, a flood |
| IceAge | filled with glaciers; the reason why the climate took a long time |
| God has divided the earth into 3 parts | a. atmosphere b. lithosphere c. hydrosphere |
| Earth's 3 layers | 1. crust 2. mantle 3. core |
| Earth's core is divided into two type of land masses | 1. continents 2. islands |
| landform | every variation in the landscape |
| mountain range | many mountains appear together |
| plains | wide areas of level (flat) land |
| alluvium | deposits brought down the mountains by rivers that settle in flat plains. |
| plateaus | wide areas of relatively flat land that rise abruptly about the surrounding lands. |
| atmosphere | air that surrounds the planet |
| lithosphere | solid part of the earth |
| hydrosphere | water on the earth |
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