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Earth Materials - Geology and Plate Tectonics PPTEarth Materials - Geology and Plate Tectonics PPT
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Earth Materials - Geology and Plate Tectonics

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Not going into depth on any one topic, this Earth science presentation skims the crust. It touches on the materials that construct the crust and then moves into plate tectonics. This is a useful and colorful note-taking guide for your middle school geology curriculum.

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paper folding, continental drift, continents, fault lines, faults, the rock cycle, rocks, the earth's crust, the earth's layers, seafloor spreading, the sea floor, depositions, plate tectonics, sediment, pangaea

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continental drift, deposition, earth structure, earth's crust, folding, pangaea, plate tectonics, rock cycle, sea floor spreading, alfred wegener, earth composition, fault line, mid ocean ridge, sediment, tectonic plate, science
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Grade
5th - 8th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Presentations
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Number of Slides
18
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