Vocabulary

• thanks to: Because of; as a result of.
• break down: To forcibly break, destroy or make collapse
• back down: To admit you were wrong; stop claiming
• move away: To relocate; to go and live in a different place.
• in the world: Used to emphasize a question expressing surprise, confusion, disbelief
• instead of: When one thing is replaced by another
• watch out: To be careful; to be alert to danger
• on the surface: Appearing to be true or real until examined more closely.
• think of: To look on as (being something specific); consider
• neck of the woods: Refers to a particular area or region where someone lives.
• in fact: Used to emphasize the truth of a statement, especially one that contrasts with or contradicts something else.
• one being: An individual existence; a person or creature.
• fit together: To combine or join parts properly or correctly.
• continental drift: The gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.
• hang out: To spend time with your friends
• got to: To arrive at some place
• turned out: To arrive for a public event or entertainment
• pull apart: To separate something into pieces, often forcefully.
• in favor of: Expressing support or approval for someone or something.
• in a big way: To a great or significant extent.
• as we know it: In the form or way commonly understood or accepted.
• as long as: For the period that; provided that.
• made with: Containing a particular ingredient or material.
• awkward: Lacking smooth movement
• massive: Very big; large; too big
• process: To organize and use data in a computer
• spectacular: Impressive or out of the ordinary
• force: Group of persons trained for military action; army
• community: Group of people who share a common idea or area
• stress: To emphasize one or more parts of a word, sentence
• spread: A big meal, often laid out as a buffet
• shift: To change in position or direction
• crust: Hard outer layer of something, e.g. the earth
• field: Area of study, such as physics or biology
• theory: Ideas or principles that explain facts or events
• gravity: (Of a situation) extreme seriousness
• flat: Apartment; set of rooms for living in
• consensus: A decision that is shared by most of a group
• surface: To give (road) a top layer
• conclusion: End of something; finish
• form: Sports team or person's current winning record
• huge: Very very large
• dense: Very thick and difficult to see, get through
• core: To take out the central section of a fruit
• planet: One of the bodies that orbit the sun
• create: To make, cause, or bring into existence
• thick: Difficult to see through, as fog
• boundary: A division or border to separate two areas
• accept: To agree to receive or take something offered
• ground: To break (coffee, etc.) into tiny bits with machine
• major: High-ranking officer in the army
• record: Highest or most extreme level achieved
• shape: The outer form of something, what it looks like
• smash: Accident involving vehicles
• transform: To change the shape completely in a good way
• puzzle: To be a challenge to understand; confuse
• build: Your physical shape; physique
• crash: To damage an object by causing it to hit something
• antarctica: An extremely cold continent at the south pole almost entirely below the Antarctic Circle; covered by an ice cap up to , feet deep
• point: An item to be discussed
• collide: To come together or crash with a lot of force
• buoyant: Capable of floating in a liquid
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• pull: Act of breathing in smoke, as from a pipe
• land: Region or country
• compose: To calm yourself after being angry or upset
• mantle: History cloak without sleeves worn over clothes
• ridge: Edge where two leaning surfaces meet
• downward: Moving from a higher to a lower condition/place
• trench: Long narrow hole dug in the ground
• rift: Opening made by splitting; a major disagreement
• volcanic: (E.g. of a temperament) easily angered; violent
• datum: Item of factual information
• continental: Of or typical of the culture of mainland Europe
• converge: (E.g. of two roads) to come together
• reshape: To form something into a new shape
• dunk: To put a donut, etc. into a liquid to wet it
• granite: Type of very hard stone used in buildings
• diverge: To move away from, in a different direction
• oceanic: Concerning the ocean
• underwater: (Moving or existing) beneath the surface of water
• sonar: System using sound waves to detect objects
• supercontinent: Land mass that combines several continents
• seafloor: Bottom of the sea
• sandpaper: Paper with glued sand used for smoothing wood