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Mantel
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Very hot and mostly solid
2
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Tectonic plate
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the large, moving slabs of solid rock that form the Earth’s outer layer, called the lithosphere
3
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Precipitation
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Water falls back down as rain
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Condensation
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Water vapor cools and form clouds
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Divergent boundaries
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Rising magma pushes plates apart
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Transform boundaries
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Two plates slide against each other wich causes earthquakes
7
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Evaporation
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Water rises into the air from oceans and rivers and plants
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Convergent plate boundary
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Two plates move towards each other
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Contiential
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Older/thicket part of earths crust
10
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Oceanic crust
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Thin dense basaltic layer of earths surface found under the oceans
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Asthenosphere
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The mechanically week region of the upper mantle of earth
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