divergent Crossword Puzzles

AP BC Calc Terms 2025-05-14

AP BC Calc Terms crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A mathematical expansion in powers of a variable.
  2. Used to estimate error in Taylor polynomials.
  3. A series where terms alternate in sign.
  4. One type of comparison test using a limit.
  5. A group of numbers added together.
  6. Series where convergence depends on the order of terms.
  7. Another name for an individual item in a sequence.
  8. Substitution method useful in calculus involving identities.
  9. A mathematical expression with a variable exponent pattern.
  10. Test involving integrating the function to test convergence.
  11. Method to analyze ratio of successive terms.
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  1. Mathematician associated with numerical methods.
  2. Ordered list of numbers.
  3. Breaking a rational function into simpler terms.
  4. Series of form 1/n^p converges if p>1.
  5. Type of convergence stronger than conditional.
  6. General method for determining if a series converges.
  7. Data display method often in rows and columns.
  8. A series in the form of a+ar+ar^2+...
  9. The opposite of convergent.
  10. Common name for mathematical summation.
  11. Test used for determining divergence or convergence using term behavior.
  12. A comparison test involving inequalities.
  13. An integral over an unbounded domain or function.

24 Clues: Ordered list of numbers. • The opposite of convergent. • A group of numbers added together. • A series in the form of a+ar+ar^2+... • Series of form 1/n^p converges if p>1. • A series where terms alternate in sign. • Common name for mathematical summation. • A comparison test involving inequalities. • One type of comparison test using a limit. • ...

Layla Mosquera 2025-06-04

Layla Mosquera crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Measures how far a data point is from the mean in standard deviations
  2. All possible y-values that come out of a function
  3. The number or expression under a radical sign
  4. The simplest function for a family of functions
  5. Selection of items where order doesn’t matter
  6. A value that includes the square root of a negative number
  7. To break down an expression
  8. An infinite series that grows without bound
  9. An expression made of terms with variables raised to whole number exponents
  10. A solution that doesn't work in the original equation
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  1. Each input has exactly one output
  2. Arrangement of items where order matters
  3. A polynomial with 2 terms
  4. A value of x that makes a function f(x) equal to 0
  5. A combination with numbers,variables, and operations
  6. A polynomial with 3 terms
  7. All possible x-values that can go into the function
  8. An infinite series that approaches a finite value
  9. The highest or lowest point of a parabola
  10. The U-shaped graph of a quadratic equation

20 Clues: A polynomial with 2 terms • A polynomial with 3 terms • To break down an expression • Each input has exactly one output • Arrangement of items where order matters • The highest or lowest point of a parabola • The U-shaped graph of a quadratic equation • An infinite series that grows without bound • The number or expression under a radical sign • ...

Plate tectonics 2022-11-16

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. an example of a fold mountain formed at a continental-continental convergent plate boundary
  2. Part of the Eart that is in molten state
  3. The outermost layer of the Earth
  4. One of the most famous ocean ridges in the world
  5. The hottest part of the Earth composed of metals
  6. Type of crust that is composed of heavy rock
  7. when two plates slide past one another
  8. When two plates collide
  9. The currents that cause plate movement
  10. The supercontinent that existed over 200 million years ago
  11. One of the major seven plates of the world
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  1. Makes up 80% of the Earth's volume
  2. Molten rock when it's under the earth's surface
  3. Type of plate boundary that separates
  4. Makes up the crust and rigid upper mantle
  5. The process of the heavier plate sinking below the lighter plate into the mantle
  6. Man who proposed Continental Drift
  7. Type of crust that is composed of light rock
  8. Home to the most famous fault line in the world
  9. landform created from a transform plate boundary

20 Clues: When two plates collide • The outermost layer of the Earth • Makes up 80% of the Earth's volume • Man who proposed Continental Drift • Type of plate boundary that separates • when two plates slide past one another • The currents that cause plate movement • Part of the Eart that is in molten state • Makes up the crust and rigid upper mantle • ...

Plate tectonics 2022-11-16

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. an example of a fold mountain formed at a continental-continental convergent plate boundary
  2. Part of the Eart that is in molten state
  3. The outermost layer of the Earth
  4. One of the most famous ocean ridges in the world
  5. The hottest part of the Earth composed of metals
  6. Type of crust that is composed of heavy rock
  7. when two plates slide past one another
  8. When two plates collide
  9. The currents that cause plate movement
  10. The supercontinent that existed over 200 million years ago
  11. One of the major seven plates of the world
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  1. Makes up 80% of the Earth's volume
  2. Molten rock when it's under the earth's surface
  3. Type of plate boundary that separates
  4. Makes up the crust and rigid upper mantle
  5. The process of the heavier plate sinking below the lighter plate into the mantle
  6. Man who proposed Continental Drift
  7. Type of crust that is composed of light rock
  8. Home to the most famous fault line in the world
  9. landform created from a transform plate boundary

20 Clues: When two plates collide • The outermost layer of the Earth • Makes up 80% of the Earth's volume • Man who proposed Continental Drift • Type of plate boundary that separates • when two plates slide past one another • The currents that cause plate movement • Part of the Eart that is in molten state • Makes up the crust and rigid upper mantle • ...

Plate Tectonics 2022-01-27

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Convergent boundaries can form underwater _______ ranges.
  2. What is the largest belt of active volcanos and earthquakes in the world?
  3. The zone where oceanic plates sink down into the asthenosphere.
  4. Once magma spills out onto the Earth’s surface it’s called
  5. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground.
  6. The convection currents cause _______ of the tectonic plates.
  7. A long high sea wave caused by an earthquake or other disturbance.
  8. What type of rock makes up continental crust?
  9. The surface along which rocks break and slide past each other.
  10. Scientist that came up with the theory of Pangaea?
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  1. What is the upper part of the mantle?
  2. The layer of the earth between the crust and the core.
  3. What kind of boundary involves plates moving apart?
  4. This core of the Earth is liquid.
  5. This core is the hottest
  6. The process of hot rock rising, cooling, and then sinking.
  7. What kind of boundary involves plates colliding?
  8. Molten rock inside the Earth
  9. What kind of boundary involves plates moving past each other?
  10. The_____tectonics cause earthquakes and volcanoes

20 Clues: This core is the hottest • Molten rock inside the Earth • This core of the Earth is liquid. • What is the upper part of the mantle? • A sudden and violent shaking of the ground. • What type of rock makes up continental crust? • What kind of boundary involves plates colliding? • The_____tectonics cause earthquakes and volcanoes • ...

Andrea's plate tectonics 2022-04-25

Andrea's plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a crack in the tectonic plate that shows on earths surface
  2. slow moving wave
  3. a delay between tasks that have a dependency
  4. a large plume of hot mantle material rising from deep within the Earth
  5. a big wave caused by an earthquake
  6. an elastic wave generated by an impulse such as an earthquake or an explosion
  7. where a earthquake originates
  8. the very center of the Earth and the hottest part of the planet.
  9. boundary where 2 plates meet
  10. the third layer and is responsible for Earth's magnetic field
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  1. directly above epicenter
  2. the mostly-solid bulk of Earth's interior and made up of magma
  3. when the earth starts shaking its called a (blank)
  4. fast moving wave
  5. boundary when 2 plates pull apart
  6. occurs when an oceanic plate runs into a continental plate and slides beneath it.
  7. a scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements
  8. a long narrow hilltop, mountain range, or watershed
  9. boundary where two plates slide pass another
  10. top layer, what we call the ground

20 Clues: slow moving wave • fast moving wave • directly above epicenter • boundary where 2 plates meet • where a earthquake originates • boundary when 2 plates pull apart • a big wave caused by an earthquake • top layer, what we call the ground • a delay between tasks that have a dependency • boundary where two plates slide pass another • ...

Jim‘s Vocab 4.1 2022-04-28

Jim‘s Vocab 4.1 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Can feel happy no matter what the situation
  2. a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
  3. Makes people feel low
  4. Having a bad temper and being prone to anger.
  5. It's a strange idea
  6. Not making a living sound
  7. A lady with elegant manners
  8. You imitate someone but you don't imitate them.
  9. Be kind to others
  10. My name
  11. A piece of paper used to advertise something publicly
  12. Wanting everything and not being able to control it.
  13. Being tied up to serve someone else's life.
  14. A tool for holding water
  15. It's hard to control your affection for others
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  1. He likes to pry into other people's lives
  2. Describing a person as sacred and intimidating.
  3. Thinking is very old
  4. Doing something behind someone's back
  5. Let others feel very divergent thinking, obedient.
  6. People who specialize in serving the lives of others。
  7. A book for rewriting
  8. Put something in storage
  9. Prattle
  10. It was used a long time ago
  11. Something very important has been lost

26 Clues: Prattle • My name • Be kind to others • It's a strange idea • Thinking is very old • A book for rewriting • Makes people feel low • Put something in storage • A tool for holding water • Not making a living sound • A lady with elegant manners • It was used a long time ago • Doing something behind someone's back • Something very important has been lost • ...

Summative Assessment Crossword Puzzle 2022-12-02

Summative Assessment Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
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  1. plates that rub together to form earthquakes
  2. when two or more species affect each others evolution
  3. where Earth's tectonic plates dive back into the mantle
  4. Piece of debris from space
  5. the study of magnetic fields
  6. using oxygen to live
  7. a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
  8. stable part of the continental lithosphere
  9. something that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
  10. pieces of Earth's crust and upper mantle
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  1. not having to use oxygen to live
  2. The study of earthquakes
  3. the time required for the radioactivity of an isotope to fall to half its original value
  4. determining the relative order of past events
  5. a technique which is used to date materials such as rocks or carbon
  6. a wave of energy that travels through the Earth
  7. an area on Earth where two or more lithospheric plates collide
  8. two or more types of atoms
  9. living organisms in the ecosystem
  10. motion in a liquid which the warmer portions rise and the lower portions sink

20 Clues: using oxygen to live • The study of earthquakes • two or more types of atoms • Piece of debris from space • the study of magnetic fields • not having to use oxygen to live • living organisms in the ecosystem • pieces of Earth's crust and upper mantle • stable part of the continental lithosphere • plates that rub together to form earthquakes • ...

Choice board 2022-09-15

Choice board crossword puzzle
Across
  1. that the outer layer has big plates
  2. north and south poles switch perioddily
  3. the boundary between two plates that our colliding
  4. the boundary between two tectonic plates
  5. strong lower part of mantle
  6. center of earth
  7. volcano making new land forms
  8. Rebound the sudden return of elastically deformed rock
  9. soft layer of mantle
  10. sudden return of elastically deformed Rock
  11. earths surface of the point were the earth quake starts
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  1. the boundy between two plates that are sliding past each other
  2. the lithosphere moves
  3. large land mass brake up to be smaller
  4. were the first motion of an earth quake starts
  5. a movement trembling of the ground
  6. a brake in a body of rock
  7. solid outer layer
  8. a block of lithosphere
  9. a chain of events that you do and it will make it right
  10. the bending or braking of crust
  11. between crust and core
  12. a movement of matter that changes density
  13. The Edge between two or more plates classified as divergent, convergent
  14. thin solid layer of earth

25 Clues: center of earth • solid outer layer • soft layer of mantle • the lithosphere moves • a block of lithosphere • between crust and core • a brake in a body of rock • thin solid layer of earth • strong lower part of mantle • volcano making new land forms • the bending or braking of crust • a movement trembling of the ground • that the outer layer has big plates • ...

Continents and Oceans 2025-08-25

Continents and Oceans crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the inner most part of the earth and has solid and liquid sections
  2. the coldest driest and windiest continent
  3. earth's largest layer it's mostly solid silicate rock between the crust and core
  4. to do with the northern most latitudes
  5. Ocean between the Americas and Africa/Europe
  6. the continent that is the western end of Eurasia
  7. the worlds most populous continent and the largest
  8. ocean by Antarctica
  9. Ocean between Asia and north America
  10. this continent is built upon some of the earth's oldest rock centered around the
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  1. contains the Andes the world's largest continental mountain range
  2. where two plates move towards each other
  3. Home to world's largest rock and the only country that is also a continent
  4. shield
  5. Home to the pyramids and the savannah, has 54 countries
  6. where two plates move away from each other
  7. where two plates slide past each other
  8. outermost solid rocky shell of the earth
  9. referring to the earth's structural sources and movements that shape the earth over time
  10. ocean between Africa and Australia

20 Clues: shield • ocean by Antarctica • ocean between Africa and Australia • Ocean between Asia and north America • where two plates slide past each other • to do with the northern most latitudes • where two plates move towards each other • outermost solid rocky shell of the earth • the coldest driest and windiest continent • where two plates move away from each other • ...

Earth Science 2025-10-14

Earth Science crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Relating to earthquakes or vibrations in Earth
  2. A type of crust found under the oceans
  3. A type of crust that forms the landmasses
  4. A plate boundary where two plates move apart
  5. A mountain that erupts with molten rock
  6. The rigid outer layer of Earth consisting of the crust and upper mantle
  7. A valley formed where tectonic plates pull apart
  8. The layer of Earth between the crust and the core
  9. The process where one tectonic plate moves under another
  10. Molten rock beneath Earth's surface
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  1. Large sections of Earth's lithosphere that move slowly
  2. The innermost layer of Earth
  3. A fracture in Earth's crust where movement occurs
  4. A sudden shaking of the ground caused by tectonic plate movement
  5. The movement of heated material that drives plate motion
  6. The location where two tectonic plates meet
  7. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other
  8. The outermost solid layer of Earth
  9. A plate boundary where plates slide past each other horizontally
  10. A large ocean wave caused by underwater earthquakes

20 Clues: The innermost layer of Earth • The outermost solid layer of Earth • Molten rock beneath Earth's surface • A type of crust found under the oceans • A mountain that erupts with molten rock • A type of crust that forms the landmasses • The location where two tectonic plates meet • A plate boundary where two plates move apart • Relating to earthquakes or vibrations in Earth • ...

Plate motion puzzle 2025-11-04

Plate motion puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A sudden shaking of Earths ground
  2. The remains of a prehistoric organism
  3. When two plates come together
  4. An educated guess to something
  5. A mountain or hill that produces lava
  6. A diagram that show what the inside of something looks like
  7. Largest body of water
  8. Hot substance from a volcano
  9. A scientist who named something Pangea
  10. Deep sea canyon formed and a convergent boundary
  11. How fast or often something happens
  12. The process where one plate is forced underneath another
  13. Rigid most outer layer of Earth
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  1. A set of different parts forming a complex whole
  2. Earths upper mantle layer below lithosphere
  3. Moving apart in different directions
  4. Evidence gathered over time by many scientists
  5. Earths second layer
  6. Something we observe over and over again
  7. Where two plates slide
  8. A break in the Earths crust
  9. A ton of solid minerals millions of years old
  10. Earths outer layer
  11. Something that repeats in order
  12. A diagram of sorts that helps us understand
  13. Massive rigid slabs of rock

26 Clues: Earths outer layer • Earths second layer • Largest body of water • Where two plates slide • A break in the Earths crust • Massive rigid slabs of rock • Hot substance from a volcano • When two plates come together • An educated guess to something • Something that repeats in order • Rigid most outer layer of Earth • A sudden shaking of Earths ground • ...

Plate tectonics 2025-10-30

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a type of crust that is under land and is dense
  2. a type of landmass that is magma filled
  3. a device used to record an earthquakes seismic waves
  4. type of boundary where 2 plates slide past eachother
  5. a border where 2 plates meet
  6. energy waves traveling from an earthquake
  7. a theory stating that the continents drifted apart
  8. innermost part of the earth
  9. an ancient supercontinent containing all earths landmass
  10. earth vibrations caused by plate movement
  11. type of boundary between 2 colliding plates
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  1. molten rock
  2. outermost rigid layer of earth containing crust and upper mantle
  3. a piece of earths crust that moves on top the mantle
  4. a cycle of heating rising cooling sinking
  5. where one plate sinks below another plate
  6. a spot in earths mantle where hot magma rises to the surface
  7. a type of boundary between 2 plates that move away from eachother
  8. a break in earths crust from movement
  9. a type of crust that's under the ocean that is thinner than continental crust

20 Clues: molten rock • innermost part of the earth • a border where 2 plates meet • a break in earths crust from movement • a type of landmass that is magma filled • a cycle of heating rising cooling sinking • where one plate sinks below another plate • energy waves traveling from an earthquake • earth vibrations caused by plate movement • type of boundary between 2 colliding plates • ...

Ever-Changing Earth 2022-12-02

Ever-Changing Earth crossword puzzle
Across
  1. molten rock inside of the earth
  2. a crack in one of Earth's plates
  3. the middle of an earthquake on the surface
  4. what scientists need in order to help support a theory.
  5. the study of earth, its materials, and changes
  6. the energy released by an earthquake, goes from 1-10
  7. a boundary type where plates move alongside each other
  8. an opening in Earth's surface through which lava, ash, and debris can erupt
  9. a measure of the damage done by an earthquake, goes from I-XII
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  1. a zone of a convergent plate boundary where oceanic crust goes under continental crust leading to earthquakes and volcanoes
  2. molten rock on Earth's surface
  3. the semi-solid layer beneath the crust
  4. also known as the ice age which ended about 10,000 years ago
  5. a boundary type where plates move toward each other
  6. a sudden motion of trembling caused when energy is released along a fault
  7. a boundary type where plates move away from eachother
  8. the starting point of an earthquake

17 Clues: molten rock on Earth's surface • molten rock inside of the earth • a crack in one of Earth's plates • the starting point of an earthquake • the semi-solid layer beneath the crust • the middle of an earthquake on the surface • the study of earth, its materials, and changes • a boundary type where plates move toward each other • ...

Plate Tectonics 2021-01-10

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Are the remains of things that lived long ago
  2. Plates that slide past each other
  3. A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas
  4. Things have been melted, often by great heat
  5. Things move away from each other
  6. The largest volcano on Earth
  7. Soft layer of melted rock under the lithosphere
  8. A German scientist in 1912 that suggested that at one time all of the continents were joined together in a supercontinent called Pangaea
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  1. As the plates move the continents on them move as well
  2. Things move closer to each other
  3. Where 90% of all of the volcanoes are located
  4. The process in which one tectonic plate is forced beneath the edge of another plate
  5. The transform fault that extends for hundreds of miles through the state of California
  6. Earth's rigid outer layer
  7. The "Supercontinent"
  8. A British geologist that purposed that the heat from Earth's mantel caused continental drift
  9. The portion of the Earth lying between the crust and the core

17 Clues: The "Supercontinent" • Earth's rigid outer layer • The largest volcano on Earth • Things move closer to each other • Things move away from each other • Plates that slide past each other • Things have been melted, often by great heat • Where 90% of all of the volcanoes are located • Are the remains of things that lived long ago • ...

Tectonic Plates 2015-11-10

Tectonic Plates crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Huge pieces of crust that move across the Earth's mantle.
  2. The last supercontinent that existed ~225 mya.
  3. The most common effect of transform boundaries.
  4. This word means slide along each other.
  5. A description you can make by looking at something.
  6. A guess you can make about something based on your observations.
  7. This word describes one plate going under another.
  8. Convergent plates often cause __ to form.
  9. Alfred __ is the first person recognized as predicting the continents used to be connected.
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  1. Under the crust is a layer of __.
  2. Because of __ __, it was easy for other geologists to ignore Wegener's claims.
  3. This word means that layers of rock are unbroken.
  4. Continent shape and fossil record were both pieces of __ for continental drift.
  5. This word means move together.
  6. It is because of the force of __ that the tectonic plates continue to move.
  7. When two continental plates hit each other, they form __.
  8. This word means move apart.

17 Clues: This word means move apart. • This word means move together. • Under the crust is a layer of __. • This word means slide along each other. • Convergent plates often cause __ to form. • The last supercontinent that existed ~225 mya. • The most common effect of transform boundaries. • This word means that layers of rock are unbroken. • ...

The Art of Critique 2024-02-13

The Art of Critique crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Approach or manner of executing a task or achieving a goal.
  2. Now-A-Days, or current, reflecting the prevailing trends or practices.
  3. To convey thoughts or ideas in a coherent and articulate manner.
  4. Lucidity or the rational association between multiple notions or concepts.
  5. Perspective or outlook on a particular matter or issue.
  6. Mental links or associations between disparate concepts or objects.
  7. Conformity in terms of pattern or behavior.
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  1. To scrutinize thoroughly or to closely study.
  2. Unique or distinct, divergent from the norm or standard.
  3. A facet or component of a circumstance, strategy, or topic.
  4. Crucial or indispensable, of utmost significance or necessity.
  5. To appraise or assess the caliber or worth of something.
  6. Intricate, challenging to grasp or unravel.
  7. Components or constituents that form the structure of an entity or object.
  8. Assessment and evaluation of the merits and shortcomings of a piece of work.
  9. Literary approach or technique employed to achieve a particular impact or outcome.
  10. Attributes or traits of a particular entity or object.

17 Clues: Intricate, challenging to grasp or unravel. • Conformity in terms of pattern or behavior. • To scrutinize thoroughly or to closely study. • Attributes or traits of a particular entity or object. • Perspective or outlook on a particular matter or issue. • Unique or distinct, divergent from the norm or standard. • ...

8 Science Term 1 Crossword 2025-03-31

8 Science Term 1 Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the type of waves that earthquakes release
  2. layer that makes up 80% of the earth
  3. rocks made from erosion and then cementation and compaction
  4. A boundary type that involves 2 plates pulling away
  5. an igneous rock that is sometimes called 'black glass'
  6. outermost layer of the earth
  7. a volcano that is unable to erupt
  8. a volcano that is able to erupt or is erupting
  9. A boundary type where 2 plates slide against each other
  10. the name of the supercontinent when all land was joined together millions of years ago
  11. the innermost layer of the earth
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  1. A boundary type that involves 2 plates coming together
  2. a volcano that can erupt but hasn't in a long time
  3. rock made from the cooling and crystallization of magma
  4. the place where an earthquake is felt on the surface
  5. they type of plates that the earths crust is made of
  6. rocks that are made from intense heat and pressure

17 Clues: outermost layer of the earth • the innermost layer of the earth • a volcano that is unable to erupt • layer that makes up 80% of the earth • the type of waves that earthquakes release • a volcano that is able to erupt or is erupting • a volcano that can erupt but hasn't in a long time • rocks that are made from intense heat and pressure • ...

Dynamic Earth 2018-04-24

Dynamic Earth crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Core is one of the earth's fluid layers and about 2,400 km thick.
  2. Analysis is using the fact that physical quantities added to or equated with each other must be expressed in terms of the same fundamental quantities for inferences to be made about the relations between them.
  3. wave a longitudinal earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the first conspicuous wave to be recorded by a seismograph.
  4. fault A geologic fault in which the hanging wall has moved upward relative to the footwall. Reverse faults occur where two blocks of rock are forced together by compression.
  5. wave is a wave motion in a solid medium where the medium moves perpendicular to the direction of the travel of the wave
  6. is discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock.
  7. Ridges a long, seismically active submarine ridge system situated in the middle of an ocean basin and marking the site of the upwelling of magma associated with seafloor spreading.
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  1. Currents is a current in a fluid that results from convection.
  2. Map is a type of map characterized by large-scale detail, usually using contour lines.
  3. Boundaries are places where plates slide sideways past each other
  4. Mantle is made up rock that is a fluid and can move. It is this fluidity that powers the movement of the tectonic plates of the Earth's crust.
  5. Boundary is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other. Divergent boundaries within continents initially produce rifts which eventually become rift valleys.
  6. a record produced by a seismograph
  7. boundaries area tectonic boundary where two plates are moving away from each other and new crust is forming from magma that rises to the Earth's surface.
  8. fault geologic fault in which the hanging wall has moved downward relative to the footwall. Normal faults occur where two blocks of rock are pulled apart, as by tension.

15 Clues: a record produced by a seismograph • Currents is a current in a fluid that results from convection. • Core is one of the earth's fluid layers and about 2,400 km thick. • Boundaries are places where plates slide sideways past each other • Map is a type of map characterized by large-scale detail, usually using contour lines. • ...

GRADE 7 QUARTER CROSSWORD FORMATIVE 2023-03-11

GRADE 7 QUARTER CROSSWORD FORMATIVE crossword puzzle
Across
  1. SOURCES THAT EMIT OR PRODUCE THEIR OWN LIGHT
  2. THE ANGLE MADE BETWEEN NORMAL & THE INCIDENT RAY IS CALLED AS ANGLE OF?
  3. THE THREE TYPES OF BEAMS ARE DIVERGENT, CONVERGENT AND ?
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  1. A GROUP OF TWO OR MORE LIGHT RAYS TRAVELLING TOGETHER IS KNOWN AS
  2. THIS TYPR OF REFLECTION IS PRODUCED BY ROUGH,DULL & UNEVEN SURFACES
  3. UNIT OF LIGHT INTENSITY
  4. NAME THE RAY THAT HITS OR STRIKES A SURFACE
  5. UNIT OF LIGHT IN THE FORM OF ENERGY
  6. OBJECTS THAT DO NOT ALLOW ANY LIGHT TO BE TRANSMITTED THROUGH IT
  7. IF THE LIGHT RAY BOUNCES OFF AN OBJECT, WE SAY THAT THE LIGHT RAY IS

10 Clues: UNIT OF LIGHT INTENSITY • UNIT OF LIGHT IN THE FORM OF ENERGY • NAME THE RAY THAT HITS OR STRIKES A SURFACE • SOURCES THAT EMIT OR PRODUCE THEIR OWN LIGHT • THE THREE TYPES OF BEAMS ARE DIVERGENT, CONVERGENT AND ? • OBJECTS THAT DO NOT ALLOW ANY LIGHT TO BE TRANSMITTED THROUGH IT • A GROUP OF TWO OR MORE LIGHT RAYS TRAVELLING TOGETHER IS KNOWN AS • ...

tectonic plates 2021-09-29

tectonic plates crossword puzzle
Across
  1. this plate come's together and can form in to mountain
  2. molten rock
  3. who developed the theory that the continents drift.
  4. zone this plate is were it is forced beneath the other plate and sinks in to the mantel.
Down
  1. this plate cause's earthquakes when it move's.
  2. which crust goes below the continental crust because its more dense.
  3. what scientist said that magma was rising on the seafloor causing it to spread.
  4. this plate goes in opposite ways
  5. the area of separation between 2plates magma flow up to make new crust.
  6. what two crust collide and push against each other.

10 Clues: molten rock • this plate goes in opposite ways • this plate cause's earthquakes when it move's. • who developed the theory that the continents drift. • what two crust collide and push against each other. • this plate come's together and can form in to mountain • which crust goes below the continental crust because its more dense. • ...

science word puzzle 2021-09-30

science word puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. rock below Earth's surface
  2. currents in the mantle caused by the magma being heated by the core of the Earth that moves the tectonic plates
  3. earth is made up of which are constantly moving along above the mantle
  4. tectonic plates the site at which an oceanic plate is sliding under a continental plate forming volcanoes
Down
  1. going up and down
  2. are found in the mantle and cause the tectonic plates of the lithosphere to move
  3. forces colliding together
  4. fracture in the earth's crust quick movement here can lead to Earthquakes
  5. idea, Alfed Wegner
  6. forces pulling away from each other

10 Clues: going up and down • idea, Alfed Wegner • forces colliding together • rock below Earth's surface • forces pulling away from each other • earth is made up of which are constantly moving along above the mantle • fracture in the earth's crust quick movement here can lead to Earthquakes • are found in the mantle and cause the tectonic plates of the lithosphere to move • ...

Plate Boundaries 2021-11-18

Plate Boundaries crossword puzzle
Across
  1. an area where two lithospheric plates collide
  2. a device used to detect small changes in magnetic fields
  3. an area were two tectonic plates are moving away from each other
  4. a driving force for plate motion in the plates
  5. a fault along a plate boundary where the plates slide past each other
Down
  1. an old land mass made of the continents that broke apart
  2. a giant slab of rock made of the Earth's lithosphere
  3. the molten or semi-molten natural material from which all igneous rocks are formed
  4. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate
  5. caused by sinking of the cold lithosphere into the asthenosphere

10 Clues: an area where two lithospheric plates collide • a driving force for plate motion in the plates • a giant slab of rock made of the Earth's lithosphere • an old land mass made of the continents that broke apart • a device used to detect small changes in magnetic fields • the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate • ...

Plate Tectonics 2021-04-28

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. You might feel this if two plates are moving in opposite directions.
  2. Section of the Earth below the crust.
  3. Name of supercontinent that broke apart to form today's continents.
  4. Paleontologists noticed that these were the same on different continents even though the continents were separated by oceans.
  5. The part of the Earth that makes up land and the ocean floors.
Down
  1. The movement of Earth's crust.
  2. Two plates that are pulling away from each other.
  3. Hotspot where magma is forced to the surface of the earth.
  4. Scientist who first proposed the theory of continental drift.
  5. Action where the seafloor is forced under a continental plate.

10 Clues: The movement of Earth's crust. • Section of the Earth below the crust. • Two plates that are pulling away from each other. • Hotspot where magma is forced to the surface of the earth. • Scientist who first proposed the theory of continental drift. • Action where the seafloor is forced under a continental plate. • ...

Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle 2023-12-18

Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Move around on Earth's surface, moved by convection currents in the mantle
  2. Heating method that causes the tectonic plates to move
  3. Boundary where 2 plates move away from each other
  4. Scientist that first introduced the idea of continental drift
  5. Super-continent that is believed to have existed LONG ago
  6. Boundary where 2 plates slide past each other moving opposite directions
Down
  1. Occurs when a less dense plate is forced under the other at a convergent boundary.
  2. Boundary where 2 plates push against each other directly
  3. Number of plates the surface is broken into (word form)
  4. Rises from below surface causing sea floor spreading

10 Clues: Boundary where 2 plates move away from each other • Rises from below surface causing sea floor spreading • Heating method that causes the tectonic plates to move • Number of plates the surface is broken into (word form) • Boundary where 2 plates push against each other directly • Super-continent that is believed to have existed LONG ago • ...

Angelique Noriega 2022-04-28

Angelique Noriega crossword puzzle
Across
  1. tending to be different or develop in different directions.
  2. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust
  3. coming closer together, especially in characteristics or ideas
  4. or relating to rock that has undergone transformation denoting or relating to rock that has undergone transformation
  5. dramatic change in the form, appearance,
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  1. having solidified from lava or magma
  2. a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust
  3. matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid
  4. GEOLOY (of rock) that has formed from sediment deposited by water or air.
  5. the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time

10 Clues: having solidified from lava or magma • dramatic change in the form, appearance, • matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid • a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust • tending to be different or develop in different directions. • coming closer together, especially in characteristics or ideas • ...

Crossword Puzzle 2022-09-29

Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a change in a form, appearance or character
  2. composed of the crust and the portion of the upper mantle that behaves elastically on time scales of up to thousands of years or more.
  3. Having the component of parts closely compacted together
  4. A linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
Down
  1. a several large landmasses
  2. A fracture or zone of fractures between two block of rocks
  3. The sudden release of strain energy in the Earth's crust, resulting in waves of shaking
  4. American geophysicist who proposed the Sea Floor Spreading hypothesis
  5. A German geologist who fully developed the Continental Drift Theory
  6. Our home planet

10 Clues: Our home planet • a several large landmasses • a change in a form, appearance or character • Having the component of parts closely compacted together • A fracture or zone of fractures between two block of rocks • A German geologist who fully developed the Continental Drift Theory • American geophysicist who proposed the Sea Floor Spreading hypothesis • ...

Bio Module 3 & 4 2020-09-10

Bio Module 3 & 4 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when two populations become genetically isolated due to temporal or behavioural mechanisms
  2. different forms of a gene
  3. distribution where individuals are spaced more or less evenly apart
  4. symbiotic relationship that benefits one organism but the other is unaffected
  5. evolution where speciation from one common ancestor occurs in response to different environmental pressures
  6. evolution of similar features in unrelated species
  7. distribution where individuals are congregated in one or multiple areas
  8. when a single specias evolves into several other species by adapting to requirements of environmental niches
  9. symbiotic relationship that benefits both organisms
  10. are sections of DNA that code specific traits of an organism
  11. combination of genes in an organisms
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  1. symbiotic relationship that benefits one organism while harming the other
  2. evolution of two species in response to one another
  3. speciation when two populations of a species becomes isolated by a geographical barrier.
  4. conditions that are ideal for an organism
  5. physical characteristic of an organisms determined by genes
  6. distribution where individuals are spaced out unpredictably

17 Clues: different forms of a gene • combination of genes in an organisms • conditions that are ideal for an organism • evolution of similar features in unrelated species • evolution of two species in response to one another • symbiotic relationship that benefits both organisms • physical characteristic of an organisms determined by genes • ...

Mountian crossword 2012-10-16

Mountian crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. magma that comes out of the volcano
  2. An area of volcanic activity
  3. A ridge or ridge-shaped fold of stratified rock
  4. A trough or fold of stratified rock
  5. mountain mountain that has been eroded
  6. Mountains a mountain range that runs through the western part of the USA
  7. ring of fire the hot spot in the Pacific Ocean
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  1. lava in the magma chamber
  2. block mountain mountains broken up by faults
  3. lifted lava beds upheaval during later volcanic activity
  4. range a horst in the west USA
  5. was mt ranges formed Mountain ranges form when two plates collide and build up on each other over the years
  6. Boundaries two plates collide, causing great amounts of pressure
  7. Boundaries two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
  8. mountains when magma hardens then is exposed
  9. mountain mountain that is bent using force
  10. process of eroding or being eroded by wind, water, or other natural agents

17 Clues: lava in the magma chamber • An area of volcanic activity • range a horst in the west USA • magma that comes out of the volcano • A trough or fold of stratified rock • mountain mountain that has been eroded • mountain mountain that is bent using force • block mountain mountains broken up by faults • mountains when magma hardens then is exposed • ...

Science quiz 2024-10-21

Science quiz crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Molten rock on the INSIDE of Earth's surface.
  2. Molten rock on the OUTSIDE of Earth's surface.
  3. The remains of living organisms.
  4. Rust is an an example of _____ weathering.
  5. How many layers does Earth have?
  6. Abrasion is an example _____ weathering.
  7. This type of tectonic plate causes visible cracks in the Earth's crust.
  8. This means to move small pieces of Earth to different locations.
  9. This is the system where all of Earth's rocks, minerals and landforms belong to.
Down
  1. Alfred _______ developed the theory of continental drift.
  2. This is layer between the crust and the core.
  3. This is the system where all of Earth's weather and air belong to.
  4. This is the system where all of Earth's plants and animals belong to.
  5. This is the system where all of Earth's water belongs to.
  6. This type of tectonic plate causes mountains and volcanoes.
  7. These are the interlocking ______ plates that make up Earth's crust.
  8. This is the innermost layer of the Earth.

17 Clues: The remains of living organisms. • How many layers does Earth have? • Abrasion is an example _____ weathering. • This is the innermost layer of the Earth. • Rust is an an example of _____ weathering. • Molten rock on the INSIDE of Earth's surface. • This is layer between the crust and the core. • Molten rock on the OUTSIDE of Earth's surface. • ...

Plate Tectonics Assignments 2015-02-04

Plate Tectonics Assignments crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Long, narrow depression that forms when continental crust begins to separate at a divergent boundary.
  2. Place where two of Earth’s tectonic plates are moving toward each other; is associated with trenches, inlands arcs, and folded mountains.
  3. Hess’s theory that new ocean crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges and destroyed at deep-sea trenches; occurs in a continuous cycle of magma intrusion and spreading.
  4. Changes in Earth’s magnetic field over geologic time, recorded in ocean-floor rocks and continental basalt flows.
  5. Ancient landmass made up of all the continents that began to break apart about 200 million years ago.
Down
  1. Tectonic process associated with convection currents in Earth’s mantle that occurs as the weight of the subducting plate pulls the trailing lithosphere into a subduction zone.
  2. States that Earth’s crust and upper mantle are broken into plates, which are huge rock slabs that move in different directions and at different rates over Earth’s surface.
  3. Process by which one tectonic plate slips beneath another tectonic plate.
  4. Tectonic process associated with convection currents in Earth’s mantle that occurs when the weight of an elevated ridge pushes an oceanic plate toward a subduction zone.
  5. Place where two of Earth’s tectonic plates are moving apart; is associated with volcanism, earthquakes, and high heat flow, and is found primarily on the seafloor.
  6. Study of Earth’s magnetic record using data gathered from iron-bearing minerals in rocks that have recorded the orientation of Earth’s magnetic field at the time of their formation.
  7. Wegener’s hypothesis that Earth’s continents were joined as a single landmass, called Pangaea, that broke apart about 200 million years ago and slowly moved to their present situations.
  8. Place where two tectonic plates slide horizontally past each another that is characterized by long faults and shallow earthquakes.
  9. Device used to map the ocean floor that detects small changes in magnetic fields.
  10. Line on a map that connects points of the same age.

15 Clues: Line on a map that connects points of the same age. • Process by which one tectonic plate slips beneath another tectonic plate. • Device used to map the ocean floor that detects small changes in magnetic fields. • Long, narrow depression that forms when continental crust begins to separate at a divergent boundary. • ...

Dynamic Earth 2018-04-24

Dynamic Earth crossword puzzle
Across
  1. wave is a wave motion in a solid medium where the medium moves perpendicular to the direction of the travel of the wave
  2. Boundary is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other. Divergent boundaries within continents initially produce rifts which eventually become rift valleys.
  3. Boundaries are places where plates slide sideways past each other
  4. Map is a type of map characterized by large-scale detail, usually using contour lines.
  5. boundaries area tectonic boundary where two plates are moving away from each other and new crust is forming from magma that rises to the Earth's surface.
  6. fault geologic fault in which the hanging wall has moved downward relative to the footwall. Normal faults occur where two blocks of rock are pulled apart, as by tension.
  7. fault A geologic fault in which the hanging wall has moved upward relative to the footwall. Reverse faults occur where two blocks of rock are forced together by compression.
  8. Ridges a long, seismically active submarine ridge system situated in the middle of an ocean basin and marking the site of the upwelling of magma associated with seafloor spreading.
  9. Core is one of the earth's fluid layers and about 2,400 km thick.
Down
  1. Analysis is using the fact that physical quantities added to or equated with each other must be expressed in terms of the same fundamental quantities for inferences to be made about the relations between them.
  2. a record produced by a seismograph
  3. Mantle is made up rock that is a fluid and can move. It is this fluidity that powers the movement of the tectonic plates of the Earth's crust.
  4. is discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock.
  5. wave a longitudinal earthquake wave that travels through the interior of the earth and is usually the first conspicuous wave to be recorded by a seismograph.
  6. Currents is a current in a fluid that results from convection.

15 Clues: a record produced by a seismograph • Currents is a current in a fluid that results from convection. • Boundaries are places where plates slide sideways past each other • Core is one of the earth's fluid layers and about 2,400 km thick. • Map is a type of map characterized by large-scale detail, usually using contour lines. • ...

Divergent chapters 1-4 2022-12-12

Divergent chapters 1-4 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. to make a choice is to
  2. enables you to see your reflection
Down
  1. A religious occasion, typical celebrated as an event or anniversary
  2. showing fearlessness and determination.
  3. a small organized dissenting group within a larger one
  4. like a quiz but usually larger and more points

6 Clues: to make a choice is to • enables you to see your reflection • showing fearlessness and determination. • like a quiz but usually larger and more points • a small organized dissenting group within a larger one • A religious occasion, typical celebrated as an event or anniversary

Divergent chapters 1-4 2022-12-12

Divergent chapters 1-4 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. to make a choice is to
  2. enables you to see your reflection
Down
  1. A religious occasion, typical celebrated as an event or anniversary
  2. showing fearlessness and determination.
  3. a small organized dissenting group within a larger one
  4. like a quiz but usually larger and more points

6 Clues: to make a choice is to • enables you to see your reflection • showing fearlessness and determination. • like a quiz but usually larger and more points • a small organized dissenting group within a larger one • A religious occasion, typical celebrated as an event or anniversary

Unit 4 Study Guide 2022-03-07

Unit 4 Study Guide crossword puzzle
Across
  1. compared to ocean crust near deep-sea trenchs, crust near ocean ridges is
  2. approximately how much of earths surface is above sea level
  3. features found at divergent boundaries include
  4. which volcanoes are the most explosive
  5. what is ocean crust made of
  6. where do most volcanoes form
  7. volcanoes that form far from plate boundaries are associated with
  8. may early mapmakers thought earth's continents had moved based on
  9. which boundary is crust neither destroyed nor fomed along
  10. what difference in travel times between P- and S- waves be used to determine
Down
  1. subduction results in the formation of
  2. each cycle of spreading and intrusion of magma during seafloor spreading results in
  3. continental-continental plate collisions produce
  4. whats forms when plates move apart
  5. the driving force of tectonic plates are realted to convection currents in earth's
  6. what forms when the top or side of a volcano collapses into the magma chamber
  7. the magnetic pattern of ocean-floor rocks on one side of an ocean ridges is

17 Clues: what is ocean crust made of • where do most volcanoes form • whats forms when plates move apart • subduction results in the formation of • which volcanoes are the most explosive • features found at divergent boundaries include • continental-continental plate collisions produce • which boundary is crust neither destroyed nor fomed along • ...

Landforms 2023-01-23

Landforms crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Layer of melted iron and nickel
  2. Causes Earthquakes also called slip and slide boundary's
  3. wegener Proposed the idea that continents sat on large crustal plates
  4. An example is Lemonade
  5. most form on ocean floors, causing magma to rise up, cool and form ridges
  6. An example is Salt and pepper
  7. Cooling magma becomes rock
  8. Is most commonly found in sedimentary rock sedimentary Rock made by sediment under immense pressure metamorphic Rock made by heat, pressure, and mineral rich liquids
Down
  1. Most earthquakes and volcanoes are here
  2. This is where the rocks moved by erosion is deposited
  3. these happen when two plates push against each other
  4. This prosses breaks down rocks
  5. Earths first layer innercore iron and nickel thought to be solid because of pressure
  6. Causes mountains on land
  7. tectonics The scientific theory that Earth’s crust is divided up into massive plates that float on top of the mantle and can move around
  8. This prosses moves broken down rocks
  9. the thickest layer

17 Clues: the thickest layer • An example is Lemonade • Causes mountains on land • Cooling magma becomes rock • An example is Salt and pepper • This prosses breaks down rocks • Layer of melted iron and nickel • This prosses moves broken down rocks • Most earthquakes and volcanoes are here • these happen when two plates push against each other • ...

science vocab 24 words 2022-09-16

science vocab 24 words crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The point on Earths surface directly above an earthquakes starting point, or focus
  2. A break in a body of rock along which one block moves relative to another
  3. The theory that Earth's outer layer is made up of large, moving pieces called tectonic plates; the theory explains how processes such as earthquakes and mountain building
  4. The process by which Earth's magnetic north pole and magnetic south pole switch positions periodically; a change in the direction in which Earth's magnetic field points
  5. Any movement of matter that results from differences in density; may be vertical, circular, or cyclical
  6. The hypothesis that a single large landmass broke up into smaller landmasses to form continents
  7. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
  8. The soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move
  9. The layer of rock between the Earth's crust and core
  10. The process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms when magma rises to Earth's surface at mid-ocean ridges and solidifies, as older, existing sea floor moves away from the ridge
Down
  1. The solid, outer layer of Earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle
  2. The strong, lower part of the mantle between the asthenosphere and the outer core
  3. The bending, tilting, and breaking of the Earth's crust; the change in shape of rock in response to stress
  4. A block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantle
  5. A movement or trembling of the ground that is caused by a sudden release of energy when rocks along a fault move
  6. The edge between two or more plates classified as divergent, convergent, or transform by the movement taking place between the plates
  7. The location within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake appears
  8. The sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape
  9. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
  10. The boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding
  11. The process by which one lithosphere plate moved beneath another plate as a result of tectonic forces
  12. The thin and solid outermost layer of Earth
  13. a system of ideas that explains many related observations and is supported by a large body of evidence acquired through scientific investigation
  14. The central part of Earth below the mantle

24 Clues: The central part of Earth below the mantle • The thin and solid outermost layer of Earth • The layer of rock between the Earth's crust and core • The boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding • The soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move • The sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape • ...

Crossword for Sharu 2014-11-03

Crossword for Sharu crossword puzzle
Across
  1. "Good Choice"
  2. First name of the next bachelor
  3. Important Divergent character initially not casted
  4. The drunkest person at KP's wedding (still can't believe it)
  5. Defining feature of Claire from Juan Pablo's season
  6. Someone who misses you
  7. the service faction of Divergent
  8. One of Shannon's top five least favorite birds
  9. The true birthplace of our nation, founded on having shirtless models and jeans!
  10. TV show. "Smelly cat, smelly cat, what are they feeding you?"
  11. Yours and Piera's favorite animal
  12. Best food at Humpfrey's
  13. Your go to photo booth pose
  14. Dessert
  15. A group name, Me, KP, Allie
  16. My worst subject and your best
  17. Board game, me and Sam thought of dirty answers
  18. Gave us tons of free stuff at derby
  19. My favorite color
  20. Best candy in the world (plural)
  21. The name of my car
  22. Best city in the USA (Hint, not Chicago, NO, or STL)
  23. One of my top five favorite books (initials only)
  24. Weirdest thing in my room, according to you
  25. The official game of Gulf Shores
  26. Movie "The clawwwwwww"
  27. Drinking game
  28. The catchy-est song evah
  29. Musical we saw (most of) together
  30. stuffed animal I have that complements your Donkey Kong
  31. The alliance formed by Me and Preston (that you secretly want into but would never admit it)
Down
  1. Condiment I have trouble with ever since spring break
  2. The official white wine of the Bachelor/Bachelorette
  3. Where the cool kids hang at SLU on a school night
  4. best card game
  5. Scary place to get lost at night
  6. N64 game, wicked awesome
  7. # of time's self-made Donkey Kong won the lottery
  8. Something I always carries close
  9. The name of your car
  10. Place to find the best jokes
  11. Movie "We are all mad here"
  12. TV show abbreviation; Barney, Marshall, Lilly
  13. Your kind of dancing
  14. This game helps you get your groove on
  15. my go to drink
  16. One way to destroy a Horcrux
  17. A nickname I use for you
  18. Your clamming nickname
  19. instrument you rode on at Kentucky Kingdom
  20. One of my biggest fears
  21. What you do in Euchre when you have 9
  22. The name of your lobster
  23. first date & one of the five senses
  24. Celebrity couple name; who won the famous dance-off at Jordan's wedding

55 Clues: Dessert • "Good Choice" • Drinking game • best card game • my go to drink • My favorite color • The name of my car • The name of your car • Your kind of dancing • Someone who misses you • Your clamming nickname • Movie "The clawwwwwww" • Best food at Humpfrey's • One of my biggest fears • N64 game, wicked awesome • A nickname I use for you • The name of your lobster • The catchy-est song evah • ...

Allegiant 2015-11-29

Allegiant crossword puzzle
Across
  1. This is what Tobias does to
  2. To twist the body about, or
  3. Tobias feels this emotion because
  4. Something left out, not done,
  5. Tris gives this up to save
  6. Loyal; faithful.
  7. These people and there
  8. Tris and Caleb are mourning there
  9. Tobias just wants one more of
  10. Tris and Tobias do this to keep
  11. Hazy, vague, indistinct, or
  12. This person helped save
  13. This person who ran
  14. David killed Tris with this object.
  15. This character is also .
  16. Tobias finds a life like this.
  17. Day This is the day Tobias
  18. Out of keeping or place;
  19. Nita set up this distraction
  20. Prior The main character.
  21. Tobias’s dad, Marcus does this
  22. State that the experiment
  23. Tris is jealous of
  24. Caleb is a this definition
  25. A period of 1000 years.
  26. Markedly unusual in
  27. Tris has to rely on Tobias and
  28. Tobias says that if something
  29. Nita is passing these letters
  30. Tris saves David from Nita
  31. Caleb needs a code to get to the
  32. Tobias is very sorry for not
  33. This is when your genes are
Down
  1. David was jealous of Natilies
  2. Tris’s best friend.
  3. Four goes along with Nita’s
  4. The city where Tris, Tobias,
  5. Tris has to own up to her
  6. Christina has to forgive
  7. This is the job Tobias
  8. When Tobias finds out that Tris
  9. This is what Tobias thinks
  10. New leader of the
  11. Imitation or enactment, as
  12. Damaged When your genes
  13. This is a word to define Tris
  14. Tris and Tobias have such a
  15. This erases peoples memory
  16. Victims are put under this
  17. This person abused his
  18. Tobias does this to his
  19. This person tells Tobias that
  20. Tobias has to welcome the
  21. Told Tris she was divergent
  22. Having a rugged, weather-
  23. This is what the city of Chicago
  24. This is all Tobias does
  25. Tris did this when she
  26. Tris did this to Christina’s
  27. This group decides to erase
  28. This what Tobias releases when
  29. Tobias gets very attached
  30. Nita tried to start this when she
  31. The brother of Tris.
  32. Tris did this because she
  33. The act of willing, choosing,
  34. Tobias is genetically
  35. Tobias’s dad is put outside the
  36. These are the people that will
  37. Peter and some others want to

70 Clues: Loyal; faithful. • New leader of the • Tris is jealous of • Tris’s best friend. • This person who ran • Markedly unusual in • The brother of Tris. • Tobias is genetically • This is the job Tobias • These people and there • This person abused his • Tris did this when she • Damaged When your genes • This person helped save • Tobias does this to his • This is all Tobias does • ...

Plates and Layers 2017-10-04

Plates and Layers crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the lithosphere is broken into these separate sections
  2. a dense ball of solid metal that is under extreme pressure
  3. a boundary where two plates move apart
  4. a boundary that forms when two plates come together
  5. created by the movements in the liquid outer core
  6. waves produced inside the Earth by an Earth Quake
  7. stes that pieces of the Earth's lithosphere are in slow, constant motion driven by convection currents in the mantle
  8. layer of solid rock that includes both dry land and the ocean floor
  9. any trace of ancient organisms that have been preserved in rock
  10. makes up the majority of the Ocean crust and is a dark rock with a fine texture
  11. a deep valley that forms along a divergent boundary
  12. the sea floor spreads apart along both sides of a mid-ocean ridge and new crust is added
Down
  1. a device that bounces sound waves off underwater objects and records the echoes of the sound waves
  2. results from a force pressing on an area
  3. heat transfer by the movement of currents within a fluid
  4. means all lands and formed the super continent in Wegener's Theory
  5. layer of hot solid rock beneath the crust - made up of the lithosphere and athenosphere
  6. what something is made of
  7. breaks in the Earth's crust where the rocks have slipped past each other
  8. place where the oceanic crust bends downward and sinks back into the mantle
  9. scientist who studies the Earth
  10. measuree of how much mass there is in a volume of a substance
  11. molten layer above the Earth's outer core that contains convection currents
  12. heat transfer with in a material or between materials that are touching - direct contact
  13. a well-tested concept that explains a wide range of observations
  14. theory that the continents slowly moved over the Earth's surface
  15. an underwater mountain range where new sea floor is created
  16. a measure of how hot or cold an object is compared to a reference point
  17. upppermost part of the mantle - means stone - tectonic plates
  18. layer of molten metal - nickel and iron that surrounds the inner core
  19. the process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench
  20. transfer of energy through a space - no direct contact takes place
  21. a boundary where two plates slip past each other moving in opposite directions
  22. rock that makes up most of the Continental crust 0 light in color and has a course texture

34 Clues: what something is made of • scientist who studies the Earth • a boundary where two plates move apart • results from a force pressing on an area • created by the movements in the liquid outer core • waves produced inside the Earth by an Earth Quake • a boundary that forms when two plates come together • a deep valley that forms along a divergent boundary • ...

Dynamic Earth 2024-02-15

Dynamic Earth crossword puzzle
Across
  1. arc - chain of volcanic islands created at oceanic convergent boundaries
  2. Crust – less dense, thicker part of the lithosphere
  3. Currents – transfer of energy where warmer, less dense material rises, and then later cools and sinks back down creating a cycle; driving force of crust movement (Figure 1)
  4. Zone – an area on the Earth’s surface where seismic waves are absent
  5. – shear waves created during an earthquake, are slower than P-waves, moveside to side (and up & down) and cannot go through liquids
  6. – primary seismic waves created by an earthquake, they move through both solids and liquids and are faster than S-waves, compressional
  7. – plates moving apart; create at rift zones and mid-ocean ridges; where new crust is created
  8. – the layer of the Earth underneath the crust where convection occurs in a specialized semi-solid region called the asthenosphere
  9. features - physical features that occur on earth - volcano, mountains, ridges and trenches
  10. – point on the surface of the Earth above the location of an underground earthquake
  11. Core – solid layer located in the center of the Earth; very high heat, pressure, and density;
  12. the influence of gravity, occurs at convergent boundaries and creates trenches (ESRT p 5)
  13. – made up of the crust and the rigid mantle; the outermost layer of the Earth; completely solid; continental lithosphere is thicker than oceanic lithosphere
  14. – sudden movement of the Earth, creating seismic waves
  15. Crust – the thinner, denser, basaltic bedrock beneath the Earth’s oceans
Down
  1. Ridge – a surface feature created at divergent boundaries, where new igneous rock in being created on the ocean floor
  2. – a volcanic area created when a tectonic plate moves over a location of rising magma within the Earth’s mantle; an example is the Hawaiian Islands
  3. – coming together; two tectonic plates merge and the denser plate subducts
  4. – a gap
  5. mostly of iron and nickel; heat released from radioactive decay of elements here drives
  6. – solid outermost part of the Earth; composed of continental and oceanic crust;
  7. tectonics
  8. – solid layer of the Earth beneath the lithosphere - where convection currents happen
  9. Waves – energetic waves produced by an earthquake
  10. - a mountain having a vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas can erupt out of.
  11. Core – liquid layer of Earth surrounding the inner core, heavy metals (iron & nickel)
  12. (to subduct) – process where the denser oceanic plate crust sinks back into the Earth

27 Clues: – a gap • tectonics • Waves – energetic waves produced by an earthquake • Crust – less dense, thicker part of the lithosphere • – sudden movement of the Earth, creating seismic waves • Zone – an area on the Earth’s surface where seismic waves are absent • arc - chain of volcanic islands created at oceanic convergent boundaries • ...

Unit 2: Science Rocks! 2023-12-06

Unit 2: Science Rocks! crossword puzzle
Across
  1. What kind of plate boundary results in the formation of rift valleys & mid-ocean ridges as the plates separate?
  2. What is made up of Earth’s crust & upper mantle?
  3. What crustal feature do both convergent oceanic-oceanic & Convergent oceanic-continental boundaries form?
  4. What crustal feature is created when tectonic plates slide past each other at transform boundaries?
  5. South America and what other continent have a “Puzzle like Fit”?
  6. What two types of convergent plate boundary causes the formation of folded mountains?
  7. Which tectonic plate is made of the continent of Antarctica & its surrounding oceanic crust?
  8. What movement do two continental plates do at the meeting point of a convergent boundary?
  9. Which tectonic plate is composed of the continent South America & a large portion of the Atlantic Ocean?
  10. What is the name of the tectonic plate that includes all of Europe & Asia as well as a large chunk of the Arctic Ocean?
  11. What is the name of the “Plastic Layer” of Earth?
  12. At transform boundaries what motion takes place?
  13. Both divergent and convergent boundaries can lead to what type of landform?
  14. What two kinds of convergent plate boundary results in trench subduction and the formation of Island Volcanos & Arcs?
  15. Which types of plate boundary causes the formation of faults?
Down
  1. Which tectonic plate contains the continent of North America & a portion of the Pacific Ocean?
  2. At convergent continental-continental boundaries, what type of mountains form?
  3. Which meteorologist first hypothesized the theory of plate tectonics in 1912?
  4. What happens when continental and oceanic plates meet at a convergent boundary?
  5. Was the theory accepted as a success or a failure during Wegner’s time by other scientists?
  6. Which tectonic plate contains the continent of Africa & the surrounding crust of the Atlantic Ocean?
  7. What major disaster may happen when tectonic plates slide past each other?
  8. Oceanic-Continental _________ boundaries create volcano mountains such as The Andes Mountains.
  9. What is another name for the deepest parts of the mantle?
  10. What was the name of the supercontinent Wegner hypothesized?
  11. Which tectonic plate combines the Australian & Indian Plates into one major plate?
  12. Which scientist discovered sea floor spreading which supported the theory of plate tectonics?
  13. What type of current keeps the plate tectonics moving according to the theory?
  14. What is the name of the largest tectonic plate which underlies the Pacific Ocean?
  15. What land feature is formed when tectonic plates move apart?

30 Clues: What is made up of Earth’s crust & upper mantle? • At transform boundaries what motion takes place? • What is the name of the “Plastic Layer” of Earth? • What is another name for the deepest parts of the mantle? • What was the name of the supercontinent Wegner hypothesized? • What land feature is formed when tectonic plates move apart? • ...

Geology Crossword 2 Frantz :)nospacesbetweenwords): 2025-11-08

Geology Crossword 2 Frantz :)nospacesbetweenwords): crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.
  2. A volcano that has not erupted for thousands of years and probably will not erupt again.
  3. The sudden release of strain energy in the Earth's crust, resulting in waves of shaking that radiate outwards from the earthquake source.
  4. The process by which water, ice, wind, or gravity moves weathered rock and soil.
  5. The breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface.
  6. The process that breaks down rock through chemical changes.
  7. extremely deep areas in the ocean that are created by a subducting plate
  8. process in which two plates collide and the denser ocean plate descends below the other
  9. A major geological fault in California formed by a sliding transform boundary.
  10. The theory that the earth is broken into plates and are in motion due to convection currents in the asthenosphere (upper mantle)
  11. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
  12. an underwater mountain range made at divergent plate boundaries
  13. term for the super continent which contained all the plates together
  14. The chemical and physical processes that break down rock and other materials on Earth's surface.
  15. The layer of hot, solid material between Earth's crust and core. The thickest layer.
  16. Process that splits rock when water seeps into cracks, then freezes and expands.
  17. The boundary formed by the collision of two plates
Down
  1. The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations
  2. a current caused by the rising of heated fluid that is less dense and sinking of cooled fluid that is more dense that drives plate movement in the mantle of the earth
  3. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
  4. The process by which new oceanic crust forms as magma rises towards the surface and solidifies at divergent boundaries.
  5. The process by which wind, water, ice, or gravity transports soil and sediment from one location to another
  6. The thin and solid outermost layer of the Earth above the mantle
  7. thinner, more dense, younger crust making ocean floor
  8. Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations.
  9. The type of weathering in which rock is physically broken into smaller pieces.
  10. The hot liquid metal layer of the Earth where convection currents create Earth's magnetic field
  11. Proposed the continental drift theory in the 1900s
  12. The portion of the earth's crust that primarily contains granite and is less dense than oceanic crust.
  13. Earth materials created by weathering and deposited by erosion.
  14. A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor.
  15. inactive, sleeping volcano

32 Clues: inactive, sleeping volcano • Proposed the continental drift theory in the 1900s • The boundary formed by the collision of two plates • thinner, more dense, younger crust making ocean floor • Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations. • Process in which sediment is laid down in new locations. • The process that breaks down rock through chemical changes. • ...

8.2 CW 1 2025-10-14

8.2 CW 1 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A lowland region formed by the divergence of tectonic plates, often characterized by volcanic activity.
  2. The study of the magnetic properties of rocks to understand the historical movements of tectonic plates.
  3. scientist that developed the idea of continental drift
  4. The geographic spread of fossils found in different locations, which can provide evidence for historical plate movements.
  5. The process by which one tectonic plate is forced under another plate, often leading to volcanic activity and earthquakes.
  6. A deep, narrow depression in the ocean floor formed at convergent plate boundaries where one plate subducts beneath another.
  7. Plates Large sections of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other.
  8. The semi-fluid layer beneath the lithosphere where convection currents occur, allowing tectonic plates to move.
  9. scientist that discovered sea-floor spreading
  10. The theory that continents move slowly over the Earth's surface, changing their positions over time.
  11. An opening in the sea floor that releases heated water and minerals, typically found near tectonic plate boundaries.
  12. A tectonic plate boundary where two plates slide past one another, causing earthquakes.
Down
  1. The eruption of magma from the Earth's interior, often associated with tectonic plate boundaries.
  2. An underwater mountain range formed by seafloor spreading at a divergent boundary in the Atlantic Ocean.
  3. A change in Earth’s magnetic field recorded in rocks that provides evidence for seafloor spreading
  4. The edges where two tectonic plates meet, where geological activity such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions often occur.
  5. A location in the mantle where heat causes the melting of rock, leading to volcanic activity, independent of plate boundaries.
  6. The rigid outer part of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
  7. The process by which new oceanic crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges and older crust is pushed away.
  8. When two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and mountains are formed
  9. A tectonic plate boundary where two plates move apart, often resulting in seafloor spreading.
  10. The movement of molten rock in the mantle caused by heat from the Earth's interior, which drives plate movements.
  11. A tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, leading to the formation of mountains, trenches, or volcanic activity.
  12. A sudden shaking of the ground caused by the movement of tectonic plates along faults.
  13. A series of volcanic islands formed at a convergent boundary, typically where an oceanic plate subducts under another oceanic plate.
  14. A major area in the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur due to tectonic activity.

26 Clues: scientist that discovered sea-floor spreading • scientist that developed the idea of continental drift • The rigid outer part of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. • When two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and mountains are formed • A sudden shaking of the ground caused by the movement of tectonic plates along faults. • ...

Earth Science Crossword 2014-04-03

Earth Science Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. /The oceanic and continental layers are the surface of the Earth.
  2. Spreading /When new sea floor is created.
  3. /The body of air that surrounds our planet.
  4. mass of land or materials that slides down because of gravitational force.
  5. /Boundaries are when two plates slide over and under each other.
  6. drift /Contents that are moving apart or towards each other because of horizontal movement.
  7. /Regions of which contain active volcanoes with an amount of magma available from the mantle.
  8. /Boundaries are when two plates move apart from each other.
  9. /A large mass of water that is built up into a huge wave.
  10. outer brittle layer, which is made up of the crust and the upper portion of the mantle.
  11. /The hottest part of the Earth which is located in the centre. It is made up of an outer layer and the inner layer.
  12. The denser part of the crust is the basaltic rock of the _______ layer below the continental layer.
  13. the liquid from the mantle is heated and cooled, causing a cycle in which causes Convection Currents to occur.
  14. /The minerals composed in the rocky crust that covers the entire surface of the plane.
Down
  1. The _______ is all living organisms on earth such as plants, animals and one-celled organisms.
  2. /A scientific name for volcanic rock.
  3. sphere is composed with all the water on the Earth? Hydrosphere
  4. /Formed from magma rising because of a rift that was caused by a divergent boundary.
  5. /What are the lines parallel to the equator?
  6. the lithosphere, which includes just the plastic fluids of the mantle.
  7. Boundaries are when plates collide into each other.
  8. /Lines that run perpendicular to latitude lines, and they pass through both poles.
  9. /80% of the Earth’s volume is made up of a plastic flexible layer that is 2900km thick.
  10. theory of how all the contents were all joined together and then drifted apart which was caused by Tectonic plate movement.
  11. Striping/ A theory which is a zebra-like pattern.
  12. /Another name for converge.
  13. A person who studies the mineral and rocks under the surface.
  14. /Height that is measured above sea level.
  15. /A mass shake that is usual caused by a transforming boundary.
  16. /The _______ is below the asthenosphere, which contains the rest of the mantle.
  17. Evidence/When the same species is found on different continents a far distance away.

31 Clues: /Another name for converge. • /A scientific name for volcanic rock. • Spreading /When new sea floor is created. • /Height that is measured above sea level. • /The body of air that surrounds our planet. • /What are the lines parallel to the equator? • Striping/ A theory which is a zebra-like pattern. • Boundaries are when plates collide into each other. • ...

Allegiant 2015-11-29

Allegiant crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Christina has to forgive
  2. The city where Tris, Tobias,
  3. When Tobias finds out that Tris
  4. Nita tried to start this when she
  5. Nita set up this distraction
  6. These are the people that will
  7. Something left out, not done,
  8. This what Tobias releases when
  9. Damaged When your genes
  10. Tobias does this to his
  11. Hazy, vague, indistinct, or
  12. Tris did this to Christina’s
  13. Four goes along with Nita’s
  14. Nita is passing these letters
  15. Tris did this because she
  16. Tris and Caleb are mourning there
  17. New leader of the
  18. Tobias gets very attached
  19. Tris’s best friend.
  20. David was jealous of Natilies
  21. The brother of Tris.
  22. This erases peoples memory
  23. Tobias is very sorry for not
  24. Tris and Tobias do this to keep
  25. Tobias has to welcome the
  26. This person helped save
  27. The act of willing, choosing,
  28. Caleb needs a code to get to the
  29. This is all Tobias does
  30. State that the experiment
  31. This person tells Tobias that
  32. Tris did this when she
  33. This group decides to erase
  34. To twist the body about, or
  35. Caleb is a this definition
Down
  1. Tobias’s dad, Marcus does this
  2. This is what Tobias thinks
  3. Loyal; faithful.
  4. Tobias just wants one more of
  5. Tris has to own up to her
  6. Imitation or enactment, as
  7. Tris and Tobias have such a
  8. Day This is the day Tobias
  9. This is what Tobias does to
  10. This is a word to define Tris
  11. David killed Tris with this object.
  12. These people and there
  13. This person abused his
  14. This person who ran
  15. Tobias’s dad is put outside the
  16. Tris saves David from Nita
  17. This is when your genes are
  18. Tris is jealous of
  19. Out of keeping or place;
  20. This character is also .
  21. Tobias finds a life like this.
  22. This is the job Tobias
  23. A period of 1000 years.
  24. Tobias says that if something
  25. This is what the city of Chicago
  26. Peter and some others want to
  27. Having a rugged, weather-
  28. Tobias feels this emotion because
  29. Victims are put under this
  30. Tris has to rely on Tobias and
  31. Prior The main character.
  32. Tobias is genetically
  33. Tris gives this up to save
  34. Markedly unusual in
  35. Told Tris she was divergent

70 Clues: Loyal; faithful. • New leader of the • Tris is jealous of • This person who ran • Tris’s best friend. • Markedly unusual in • The brother of Tris. • Tobias is genetically • These people and there • This person abused his • This is the job Tobias • Tris did this when she • Damaged When your genes • Tobias does this to his • A period of 1000 years. • This person helped save • ...

Earth's Interior Vocab 2022-09-14

Earth's Interior Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The layer of rock between the Earth’s crust and core.
  2. A movement or trembling of the ground that is caused by a sudden release of energy when rocks along a fault move.
  3. drift, The hypothesis that a single large landmass broke up into smaller land masses to form the continents, which then drifted to their present locations; the movement of continents.
  4. plate boundary, The edge between two or more plates classified as divergent, convergent, or transform by the movement taking place between the plates.
  5. The location within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs.
  6. boundary, The boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding.
  7. The central part of Earth below the mantle.
  8. plate, A block of lithosphere that consists of of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantle.
  9. boundary, The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally.
  10. The strong, lower part of the mantle between the asthenosphere and the outer core.
  11. tectonics, The theory that Earth’s outer layer is made up of large, moving pieces called tectonic plates; the theory explains how plates interact and how those interactions relate to processes such as earthquakes and mountain building.
  12. spreading, The process by which new oceanic lithosphere (sea floor) forms when magma rises to Earth’s surface at mid-ocean ridges and solidifies, as older, existing seafloor moves away from the ridge.
  13. The thin and solid outermost layer of Earth above the mantle.
Down
  1. boundary, The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
  2. The soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move.
  3. The process by which one lithospheric plate moves beneath another plate as a result of tectonic forces.
  4. rebound, The sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape.
  5. The solid, outer layer of Earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle.
  6. reversal, The process by which Earth’s magnetic north pole and magnetic south pole switch positions periodically; a change in the direction in which Earth’s magnetic field points.
  7. current, Any movement of matter that results from differences in density; may be vertical, circular, or cyclical.
  8. The bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth’s crust; the change in the shape of rock in response to stress.
  9. A system of ideas that explains many related observations and is supported by a large body of evidence acquired through scientific investigation.
  10. The point on Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s starting point, or focus.
  11. A break in a body of rock along which one block moves relative to another.

24 Clues: The central part of Earth below the mantle. • The layer of rock between the Earth’s crust and core. • The thin and solid outermost layer of Earth above the mantle. • The soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move. • boundary, The boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding. • ...

Earth's Interior Vocab 2022-09-16

Earth's Interior Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The process by which one lithospheric plate moves beneath another plate as a result of tectonic forces
  2. The point on Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s starting point, or focus
  3. The soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move
  4. Any movement of matter that results differences in density; many be vertical
  5. block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantle
  6. Earth’s outer layer is made up of large, moving pieces called tectonic plates; the theory explains how plates interact and how those interactions relate to processes such as earthquakes and mountain building
  7. The sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape
  8. A break in a body of rock along which one block moves relative to another
  9. Drift The hypothesis that a single large landmass broke up into smaller land masses to form the continents, which then drifted to their present locations; the movement of continents
  10. The boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding
  11. A break in a body of rock along which one block moves relative to another
Down
  1. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
  2. The edge between two or more plates classified as divergent, convergent, or transform by the movement taking place between the plates
  3. The solid, outer layer of Earth that consists of the crust and upper mantle
  4. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
  5. The change in the shape of rock in response to stress
  6. Movement or trembling of the ground that is caused by a sudden release of energy when rocks along a fault move
  7. The process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms when magma rises to Earth’s surface at mid-ocean ridges and solidifies, as older, existing seafloor moves away from the ridge
  8. The thin and solid outermost layer of Earth above the mantle
  9. The layer of rock between the Earth’s crust and core
  10. The process by which Earth’s magnetic north pole and magnetic south pole switch positions periodically; a change in the direction in which Earth’s magnetic field points
  11. A block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantle
  12. A system of ideas that explains many related observations is supported by a large body of evidence acquired through scientific investigation
  13. The strong, lower part of the mantle between the asthenosphere and the outer core
  14. The central part of Earth below the mantle

25 Clues: The central part of Earth below the mantle • The layer of rock between the Earth’s crust and core • The change in the shape of rock in response to stress • The boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding • The thin and solid outermost layer of Earth above the mantle • The soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move • ...

8th Grade Science Fusion Review Crossword (Unit 3 & Unit 4) 2022-05-02

8th Grade Science Fusion Review Crossword (Unit 3 & Unit 4) crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Theory that Earth is divided into giant moving slabs (3)
  2. Fault that occurs at a transform boundary (3)
  3. Boundary where plates pull apart (3)
  4. Stress that pulls material apart (3)
  5. Earth's layer that is lquid (3)
  6. Fault that occurs at a convergent boundary (3)
  7. Earth's layer that is the most dense (3)
  8. Outermost layer of Earth (3)
  9. Directly above the focus on Earth's surface (3)
  10. Soft sticky tree sap that can trap insect fossils (4)
  11. Boundary where plates slide past each other (3)
  12. Type of dating used to determine whether an object is older or younger (4)
  13. Long cylinder of ice (4)
  14. Place within Earth along a fault which the first motion of an earthquake occurs (3)
  15. Process by which new seafloor forms (3)
  16. Fault that occurs at a divergent boundary (3)
  17. Stress that causes material to twist (3)
  18. Remains of an organism that lived long ago (4)
  19. Describes the weather conditions in an area over a long period of time (4)
  20. Theory that today's continents were once one large landmass (3)
  21. Break in Earth's crust along which blocks move (3)
  22. Geologic processes that happened in the past can explain current geologic processes (4)
Down
  1. States that younger rocks are on top and older rocks are on the bottom (4)
  2. The age of the Earth is 4.6 ______ years old (3)
  3. Clues about Earth's interior come from these space objects (3)
  4. Type of fossil that formed in sedimentary rock by animal activity (4)
  5. Sudden ground movement when rocks move suddenly and release energy (3)
  6. The "Ring of Fire" is a line of _____ around the Pacific Ocean (3)
  7. Scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift (3)
  8. Stress that squeezes or pushes material together (3)
  9. Name of one large landmass "supercontinent" (3)
  10. Type of seismic wave that doesn't go through liquids (3)
  11. Type of dating used to determine the exact age of a rock or object (4)
  12. Thickest layer of the Earth (3)
  13. Wave generated from an underwater earthquake (3)
  14. Type of seismic wave that is the fastest (3)
  15. Happens at a convergent boundary when one plates slides under another (3)
  16. Layer of earth that contains the crust and upper part of the mantle (3)
  17. Boundary where plates push together (3)
  18. Fossil that only lived for a short period of time that helps date rocks (4)

40 Clues: Long cylinder of ice (4) • Outermost layer of Earth (3) • Earth's layer that is lquid (3) • Thickest layer of the Earth (3) • Boundary where plates pull apart (3) • Stress that pulls material apart (3) • Process by which new seafloor forms (3) • Boundary where plates push together (3) • Earth's layer that is the most dense (3) • Stress that causes material to twist (3) • ...

Science Midterm 2016-12-15

Science Midterm crossword puzzle
Across
  1. When any type of rock is melted, it becomes __________.
  2. __________ is the movement of weathered rocks.
  3. The __________ is the hottest and densest layer of the Earth.
  4. __________ currents occur when hot magma rises and cool magma sinks over and over.
  5. When a hemisphere receives more indirect sunlight, it is __________.
  6. __________ boundaries occur when plates come together.
  7. The greater the mass of an object, the less acceleration an object has in motion. The greater the force an object is given, the more acceleration an object has in motion. This is called Newton’s __________ law.
  8. The change of speed is called __________.
  9. __________ boundaries occur when plates slide past each other.
  10. __________ drift theory is the theory that the continents once fit together but broke apart and slowly drifted apart.
  11. If an object is in motion, it stays in motion until an unbalanced force acts on it. If an object is at rest, it stays at rest until an unbalanced force acts on it. This is called Newton’s __________ law.
  12. An object is in __________ when it changes its position.
  13. Divergent boundaries can cause __________ spreading to happen.
  14. Seafloor __________ occurs when magma erupts from the Mid-Atlantic ridge and cools and hardens into a new rock layer.
  15. __________ rocks are formed from magma cooling and hardening.
  16. Earth has seasons because of its __________.
Down
  1. __________ is the supercontinent containing all the continents.
  2. __________ boundaries occur when plates move apart.
  3. __________ occurs when the old rock layer is pushed back down into the mantle and melted into magma.
  4. Subduction occurs at the __________.
  5. __________ are pieces of sand, rock, and other materials.
  6. Convection __________ occur in the mantle.
  7. The revolution of the Moon around the Earth takes one __________.
  8. __________ is how heavy or light an object is for its size.
  9. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is called Newton’s __________ law.
  10. __________ rocks are formed from heat and pressure.
  11. Convergent boundaries can cause __________ to form.
  12. The __________ of the Earth around the Sun takes one year.
  13. Sedimentary rocks are formed from cementation and __________ of sediments.
  14. Transform boundaries can cause __________ to occur.
  15. The __________ of Earth takes one day.
  16. __________ is the breaking down of rocks.
  17. The __________ is the layer that is made up of rock.
  18. When a hemisphere receives more direct sunlight, it is __________.
  19. The __________ is the layer that consists of magma.
  20. Seafloor spreading occurs at the Mid-Atlantic __________.

36 Clues: Subduction occurs at the __________. • The __________ of Earth takes one day. • The change of speed is called __________. • __________ is the breaking down of rocks. • Convection __________ occur in the mantle. • Earth has seasons because of its __________. • __________ is the movement of weathered rocks. • __________ boundaries occur when plates move apart. • ...

Science Midterm 2016-12-15

Science Midterm crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The __________ of Earth takes one day.
  2. __________ are pieces of sand, rock, and other materials.
  3. The revolution of the Moon around the Earth takes one __________.
  4. __________ is the supercontinent containing all the continents.
  5. An object is in __________ when it changes its position.
  6. __________ is how heavy or light an object is for its size.
  7. Seafloor __________ occurs when magma erupts from the Mid-Atlantic ridge and cools and hardens into a new rock layer.
  8. __________ currents occur when hot magma rises and cool magma sinks over and over.
  9. When any type of rock is melted, it becomes __________.
  10. __________ is the breaking down of rocks.
  11. Seafloor spreading occurs at the Mid-Atlantic __________.
  12. The __________ is the hottest and densest layer of the Earth.
  13. The change of speed is called __________.
  14. __________ boundaries occur when plates come together.
  15. The greater the mass of an object, the less acceleration an object has in motion. The greater the force an object is given, the more acceleration an object has in motion. This is called Newton’s __________ law.
  16. Sedimentary rocks are formed from cementation and __________ of sediments.
  17. Divergent boundaries can cause __________ spreading to happen.
  18. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is called Newton’s __________ law.
  19. The __________ is the layer that consists of magma.
  20. Subduction occurs at the __________.
Down
  1. Convergent boundaries can cause __________ to form.
  2. __________ boundaries occur when plates move apart.
  3. __________ boundaries occur when plates slide past each other.
  4. Earth has seasons because of its __________.
  5. __________ rocks are formed from magma cooling and hardening.
  6. The __________ of the Earth around the Sun takes one year.
  7. When a hemisphere receives more direct sunlight, it is __________.
  8. __________ rocks are formed from heat and pressure.
  9. Transform boundaries can cause __________ to occur.
  10. __________ occurs when the old rock layer is pushed back down into the mantle and melted into magma.
  11. __________ drift theory is the theory that the continents once fit together but broke apart and slowly drifted apart.
  12. __________ is the movement of weathered rocks.
  13. If an object is in motion, it stays in motion until an unbalanced force acts on it. If an object is at rest, it stays at rest until an unbalanced force acts on it. This is called Newton’s __________ law.
  14. Convection __________ occur in the mantle.
  15. The __________ is the layer that is made up of rock.
  16. When a hemisphere receives more indirect sunlight, it is __________.

36 Clues: Subduction occurs at the __________. • The __________ of Earth takes one day. • __________ is the breaking down of rocks. • The change of speed is called __________. • Convection __________ occur in the mantle. • Earth has seasons because of its __________. • __________ is the movement of weathered rocks. • Convergent boundaries can cause __________ to form. • ...

Unit 2 Science Rocks! 2023-12-03

Unit 2 Science Rocks! crossword puzzle
Across
  1. What kind of plate boundary results in the formation of rift valleys & mid-ocean ridges as the plates separate?
  2. What is made up of Earth’s crust & upper mantle?
  3. What crustal feature do both convergent oceanic-oceanic & Convergent oceanic-continental boundaries form?
  4. What crustal feature is created when tectonic plates slide past each other at transform boundaries?
  5. South America and what other continent have a “Puzzle like Fit”?
  6. What two types of convergent plate boundary causes the formation of folded mountains?
  7. Which tectonic plate is made of the continent of Antarctica & its surrounding oceanic crust?
  8. What movement do two continental plates do at the meeting point of a convergent boundary?
  9. Which tectonic plate is composed of the continent South America & a large portion of the Atlantic Ocean?
  10. What is the name of the tectonic plate that includes all of Europe & Asia as well as a large chunk of the Arctic Ocean?
  11. What is the name of the “Plastic Layer” of Earth?
  12. At transform boundaries what motion takes place?
  13. Both divergent and convergent boundaries can lead to what type of landform?
  14. What two kinds of convergent plate boundary results in trench subduction and the formation of Island Volcanos & Arcs?
  15. Which types of plate boundary causes the formation of faults?
Down
  1. Which tectonic plate contains the continent of North America & a portion of the Pacific Ocean?
  2. At convergent continental-continental boundaries, what type of mountains form?
  3. Which meteorologist first hypothesized the theory of plate tectonics in 1912?
  4. What happens when continental and oceanic plates meet at a convergent boundary?
  5. Was the theory accepted as a success or a failure during Wegner’s time by other scientists?
  6. Which tectonic plate contains the continent of Africa & the surrounding crust of the Atlantic Ocean?
  7. What major disaster may happen when tectonic plates slide past each other?
  8. Oceanic-Continental _________ boundaries create volcano mountains such as The Andes Mountains.
  9. What is another name for the deepest parts of the mantle?
  10. What was the name of the supercontinent Wegner hypothesized?
  11. Which tectonic plate combines the Australian & Indian Plates into one major plate?
  12. Which scientist discovered sea floor spreading which supported the theory of plate tectonics?
  13. What type of current keeps the plate tectonics moving according to the theory?
  14. What is the name of the largest tectonic plate which underlies the Pacific Ocean?
  15. What land feature is formed when tectonic plates move apart?

30 Clues: What is made up of Earth’s crust & upper mantle? • At transform boundaries what motion takes place? • What is the name of the “Plastic Layer” of Earth? • What is another name for the deepest parts of the mantle? • What was the name of the supercontinent Wegner hypothesized? • What land feature is formed when tectonic plates move apart? • ...

8.2 CW 2 2025-10-15

8.2 CW 2 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The study of the magnetic properties of rocks to understand the historical movements of tectonic plates.
  2. A tectonic plate boundary where two plates move apart, often resulting in seafloor spreading.
  3. A tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, leading to the formation of mountains, trenches, or volcanic activity.
  4. The theory that continents move slowly over the Earth's surface, changing their positions over time.
  5. An opening in the sea floor that releases heated water and minerals, typically found near tectonic plate boundaries.
  6. A sudden shaking of the ground caused by the movement of tectonic plates along faults.
  7. The rigid outer part of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
  8. A major area in the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur due to tectonic activity.
  9. When two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and mountains are formed
  10. An underwater mountain range formed by seafloor spreading at a divergent boundary in the Atlantic Ocean.
  11. Large sections of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other.
Down
  1. A change in Earth’s magnetic field recorded in rocks that provides evidence for seafloor spreading
  2. The eruption of magma from the Earth's interior, often associated with tectonic plate boundaries.
  3. The movement of molten rock in the mantle caused by heat from the Earth's interior, which drives plate movements.
  4. scientist that developed the idea of continental drift
  5. The geographic spread of fossils found in different locations, which can provide evidence for historical plate movements.
  6. A lowland region formed by the divergence of tectonic plates, often characterized by volcanic activity.
  7. The edges where two tectonic plates meet, where geological activity such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions often occur.
  8. A tectonic plate boundary where two plates slide past one another, causing earthquakes.
  9. A deep, narrow depression in the ocean floor formed at convergent plate boundaries where one plate subducts beneath another.
  10. scientist that discovered sea-floor spreading
  11. A location in the mantle where heat causes the melting of rock, leading to volcanic activity, independent of plate boundaries.
  12. A series of volcanic islands formed at a convergent boundary, typically where an oceanic plate subducts under another oceanic plate.
  13. The process by which new oceanic crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges and older crust is pushed away.
  14. The semi-fluid layer beneath the lithosphere where convection currents occur, allowing tectonic plates to move.
  15. The process by which one tectonic plate is forced under another plate, often leading to volcanic activity and earthquakes.

26 Clues: scientist that discovered sea-floor spreading • scientist that developed the idea of continental drift • The rigid outer part of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. • When two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and mountains are formed • Large sections of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other. • ...

Layers of the Earth/ Plate Tectonics 2023-02-23

Layers of the Earth/ Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Is under the most intense pressure and is the most dense.
  2. Tectonic plates move slowly over the _____ mantle.
  3. This crust is found under the ocean.
  4. This crust is found under the continents.
  5. How many major plates is the lithosphere broken into?
  6. What is the rigid outer shell of the planet?
  7. Thinnest, outermost layer of the earth.
  8. How does new crust is form when magma rises to the surface between two plates.
Down
  1. Scientist who proposed the idea of continental drift.
  2. Metal found in the outer and inner core.
  3. A supercontinent existed 335 million years ago that is known as ______.
  4. What plate movement can push up to form mountains?
  5. What is the only layer that is liquid?
  6. Responsible for moving the tectonic plates in the mantle.
  7. Between the crust and core, it has an upper and lower part to it.
  8. What direction (N,S,E,W) does the Antarctic Plate move?
  9. This causes friction and pressure, it can be released in the form of earthquakes.
  10. Metal found in the outer and inner core.

18 Clues: This crust is found under the ocean. • What is the only layer that is liquid? • Thinnest, outermost layer of the earth. • Metal found in the outer and inner core. • Metal found in the outer and inner core. • This crust is found under the continents. • What is the rigid outer shell of the planet? • What plate movement can push up to form mountains? • ...

Dystpoian Fiction 2024-10-11

Dystpoian Fiction crossword puzzle
Across
  1. to search for food - word used in 'The Hunger Games' extract (6)
  2. The '_________'; event being waited for in 'The Hunger Games' (7)
  3. Who is always watching you in '1984'? (3,7)
  4. a word which means the opposite to 'dystopia' (6)
  5. The leader of a dystopian society of often one of these (8)
  6. main character of '1984' (7)
  7. Title of dystopian text we have studied, meaning 'different to the normal' (9)
  8. Shortened acronym for the Handbook in 'Delirium' (4)
Down
  1. 'The _________' ruling party in 'Delirium' (10)
  2. Seen as a disease in 'Delirium' (4)
  3. 'Harrison _________'; Title of one of our dystopian texts (8)
  4. another word for a main character (11)
  5. Name of the mother of Harrison B (5)
  6. What are being watched on the TV by George and wife in 'Harrison B' (10)
  7. what awaits in Room 101 for the main character (4)
  8. Russian leader that the poster reminds us of in '1984'
  9. What are sold in Mr Charrington's shop (8)

17 Clues: main character of '1984' (7) • Seen as a disease in 'Delirium' (4) • Name of the mother of Harrison B (5) • another word for a main character (11) • What are sold in Mr Charrington's shop (8) • Who is always watching you in '1984'? (3,7) • 'The _________' ruling party in 'Delirium' (10) • a word which means the opposite to 'dystopia' (6) • ...

Volcanoes Crossword 2012-01-25

Volcanoes Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when the top of a volcano collapses forming a circular depression
  2. place in the middle of a tectonic plate where the mantle is thin and a volcano occurs
  3. volcano that throw lava and rock high into the air
  4. walled depression around a vent
  5. volcano whose eruptions vary between quiet and violent
  6. volcano in Oregon
  7. most active volcano on Earth
  8. volcano that had a violent eruption in 1883 in Indonesia
  9. opening the Earth that erups gases, ash and lava
Down
  1. type of magma that causes explosive eruptions
  2. left when magma that hardens in a vent & the mountain erodes away
  3. island formed by volcanic action at a divergent plate boundary
  4. opening where lava flows out onto the Earth's surface
  5. intrusive igneous rock feature formed when magma cooled and hardened into a dome underground
  6. volcano with gently sloping sides
  7. type of magma that causes quiet eruptions
  8. mountain range that gave its name to a type of magma

17 Clues: volcano in Oregon • most active volcano on Earth • walled depression around a vent • volcano with gently sloping sides • type of magma that causes quiet eruptions • type of magma that causes explosive eruptions • opening the Earth that erups gases, ash and lava • volcano that throw lava and rock high into the air • mountain range that gave its name to a type of magma • ...

Science 8A 2023-05-10

Science 8A crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a thin line of light coming from a source is called a light ____
  2. sun, stars, and fire are _____ source of light
  3. objects that allow some light to pass through
  4. an artificial source of light
  5. An _____ happens when a planet or a moon gets in the way of the Sun’s light
  6. source of light energy
  7. A lighthouse produces D____ beams
  8. During a ______ eclipse, Earth gets in the way of the Sun’s light hitting the Moon
  9. when light is blocked by an opaque object, a ____ is formed
Down
  1. A ____ eclipse happens when the Moon gets in the way of the Sun’s light and casts its shadow on Earth
  2. objects that allow all light to pass through
  3. bouncing of light rays off a surface
  4. an important form of energy
  5. objects that don't allow light to pass through
  6. a spotlight produces P____ beams
  7. a bundle of light rays is called a ___ of light
  8. light travels in _______lines

17 Clues: source of light energy • an important form of energy • an artificial source of light • light travels in _______lines • a spotlight produces P____ beams • A lighthouse produces D____ beams • bouncing of light rays off a surface • objects that allow all light to pass through • sun, stars, and fire are _____ source of light • objects that don't allow light to pass through • ...

Huffdaddy's Crossword 2021-12-02

Huffdaddy's Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. currents a process that involves the movement of energy from one place to another
  2. Cracks in the earth's crust where there is movement
  3. An elevated piece of crust
  4. The landform in which all of the continents on earth were joined together
  5. A boundary where two plates are sliding past from each other
  6. Things that happen to the earth that are negative
  7. A boundary where two plates are moving away from each other
  8. The uppermost part of the earth
Down
  1. pieces of the crust's uppermost part
  2. A crack in the earth's crust that spews magma and ash
  3. the area extending from a stream to its valley walls
  4. the part of the earth below the crust
  5. A boundary where two plates are moving toward each other
  6. The process of displacing rock layers
  7. the slow upward movement of the earths surface
  8. Things that happen to the earth that are positive
  9. The innermost part of the earth

17 Clues: An elevated piece of crust • The innermost part of the earth • The uppermost part of the earth • pieces of the crust's uppermost part • the part of the earth below the crust • The process of displacing rock layers • the slow upward movement of the earths surface • Things that happen to the earth that are positive • Things that happen to the earth that are negative • ...

Allegiant 2015-11-29

Allegiant crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Caleb is a this definition
  2. The brother of Tris.
  3. This is a word to define Tris
  4. Tris saves David from Nita
  5. Tobias says that if something
  6. This is all Tobias does
  7. Four goes along with Nita’s
  8. Tobias’s dad, Marcus does this
  9. The act of willing, choosing,
  10. Something left out, not done,
  11. Tobias is very sorry for not
  12. When Tobias finds out that Tris
  13. Loyal; faithful.
  14. Tris is jealous of
  15. Damaged When your genes
  16. New leader of the
  17. Victims are put under this
  18. Tris and Tobias have such a
  19. This character is also .
  20. This group decides to erase
  21. Tris did this because she
  22. This erases peoples memory
  23. Tris did this to Christina’s
  24. These people and there
  25. Peter and some others want to
  26. Imitation or enactment, as
  27. This is the job Tobias
  28. Markedly unusual in
  29. Tobias finds a life like this.
  30. Tobias does this to his
  31. This is what Tobias thinks
  32. This is what the city of Chicago
  33. This person helped save
Down
  1. The city where Tris, Tobias,
  2. Tobias has to welcome the
  3. Tris has to own up to her
  4. Prior The main character.
  5. These are the people that will
  6. Hazy, vague, indistinct, or
  7. Out of keeping or place;
  8. This is when your genes are
  9. Tris has to rely on Tobias and
  10. Told Tris she was divergent
  11. State that the experiment
  12. To twist the body about, or
  13. This what Tobias releases when
  14. Tris and Caleb are mourning there
  15. This person who ran
  16. Tobias just wants one more of
  17. Tobias gets very attached
  18. Nita set up this distraction
  19. Nita is passing these letters
  20. This person abused his
  21. Tris’s best friend.
  22. This is what Tobias does to
  23. A period of 1000 years.
  24. Tobias’s dad is put outside the
  25. Tris and Tobias do this to keep
  26. Caleb needs a code to get to the
  27. Christina has to forgive
  28. Tris gives this up to save
  29. Tris did this when she
  30. David killed Tris with this object.
  31. Day This is the day Tobias
  32. Nita tried to start this when she
  33. Tobias is genetically
  34. Having a rugged, weather-
  35. Tobias feels this emotion because
  36. David was jealous of Natilies
  37. This person tells Tobias that

70 Clues: Loyal; faithful. • New leader of the • Tris is jealous of • This person who ran • Tris’s best friend. • Markedly unusual in • The brother of Tris. • Tobias is genetically • This person abused his • These people and there • Tris did this when she • This is the job Tobias • This is all Tobias does • Damaged When your genes • A period of 1000 years. • Tobias does this to his • ...

Earthquakes Crossword Puzzle 2017-03-11

Earthquakes Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A change in the shape of the rock caused by stress.
  2. When the plates collide into each other, this boundary is created.
  3. These are waves that carry energy of an earthquake away from the focus.
  4. The location under the Earth where the earthquake originally started.
  5. Waves that travel in all directions from the focus through the body of the Earth.
  6. arcs Curved line of volcanoes that forms parallel to plate boundaries.
  7. This happens when divergent boundaries occur within a continent, they cause enormous splits in the crust.
  8. A force that acts on rocks to change their shape or volume.
  9. This creates a permanent change in the rock.
  10. Sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust.
  11. In a convergent boundary, when one side of rock moves relative to the other.
  12. This boundary is created when plates move apart from each other.
  13. Are very slow waves, and they are the most damaging wave.
  14. A wave that causes the ground to shake and moves in a up and down.
  15. A natural crack or break in the rock.
Down
  1. This is an area of many fractured pieces of crust along a large fault.
  2. One plate goes under the other during collision forming a deep trench.
  3. The pull on the crust, stretching rock so it becomes thinner in the middle.
  4. Change in a rock that is not permanent.
  5. The theory that parts of the Earth are split into plates and that those plates glide over the mantle.
  6. ocean-ridges The tension that causes oceanic crust to spread allowing hot rock from mantle top rise creating high ridges.
  7. Created by the collision of two continental plates.
  8. This is when rock gets squeezed until it folds or breaks.
  9. When two blocks of rocks slide past each other in opposite directions.
  10. When a mass of rock gets pushed in two opposite directions.
  11. Waves that travel only on the surface of the Earth.
  12. This boundary is created when plates slide horizontally past each other they form a fault, or a break in the rock of the crust.
  13. When one block of rock above the fault gets pushed down.
  14. Point of the surface directly above the focus.
  15. The energy that transfers from one person to another, and product from the sun.

30 Clues: A natural crack or break in the rock. • Change in a rock that is not permanent. • This creates a permanent change in the rock. • Sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust. • Point of the surface directly above the focus. • A change in the shape of the rock caused by stress. • Created by the collision of two continental plates. • ...

8.2 CW 2 2025-10-27

8.2 CW 2 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. An underwater mountain range formed by seafloor spreading at a divergent boundary in the Atlantic Ocean.
  2. A major area in the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur due to tectonic activity.
  3. A series of volcanic islands formed at a convergent boundary, typically where an oceanic plate subducts under another oceanic plate.
  4. scientist that developed the idea of continental drift
  5. The eruption of magma from the Earth's interior, often associated with tectonic plate boundaries.
  6. The rigid outer part of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
  7. A lowland region formed by the divergence of tectonic plates, often characterized by volcanic activity.
  8. A tectonic plate boundary where two plates move apart, often resulting in seafloor spreading.
  9. The process by which one tectonic plate is forced under another plate, often leading to volcanic activity and earthquakes.
  10. A deep, narrow depression in the ocean floor formed at convergent plate boundaries where one plate subducts beneath another.
  11. The process by which new oceanic crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges and older crust is pushed away.
  12. A tectonic plate boundary where two plates slide past one another, causing earthquakes.
  13. A location in the mantle where heat causes the melting of rock, leading to volcanic activity, independent of plate boundaries.
  14. A change in Earth’s magnetic field recorded in rocks that provides evidence for seafloor spreading
  15. The semi-fluid layer beneath the lithosphere where convection currents occur, allowing tectonic plates to move.
Down
  1. A sudden shaking of the ground caused by the movement of tectonic plates along faults.
  2. The study of the magnetic properties of rocks to understand the historical movements of tectonic plates.
  3. The geographic spread of fossils found in different locations, which can provide evidence for historical plate movements.
  4. The movement of molten rock in the mantle caused by heat from the Earth's interior, which drives plate movements.
  5. When two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and mountains are formed
  6. The theory that continents move slowly over the Earth's surface, changing their positions over time.
  7. Large sections of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other.
  8. A tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, leading to the formation of mountains, trenches, or volcanic activity.
  9. An opening in the sea floor that releases heated water and minerals, typically found near tectonic plate boundaries.
  10. The edges where two tectonic plates meet, where geological activity such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions often occur.
  11. scientist that discovered sea-floor spreading

26 Clues: scientist that discovered sea-floor spreading • scientist that developed the idea of continental drift • The rigid outer part of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. • When two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and mountains are formed • Large sections of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other. • ...

Divergent chapters 1-4 2022-12-12

Divergent chapters 1-4 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. to make a choice is to
  2. enables you to see your reflection
Down
  1. A religious occasion, typical celebrated as an event or anniversary
  2. showing fearlessness and determination.
  3. a small organized dissenting group within a larger one
  4. like a quiz but usually larger and more points

6 Clues: to make a choice is to • enables you to see your reflection • showing fearlessness and determination. • like a quiz but usually larger and more points • a small organized dissenting group within a larger one • A religious occasion, typical celebrated as an event or anniversary

Plate Tectonic 2021-04-06

Plate Tectonic crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Vast, water-filled areas (such as the Atlantic Ocean) that formed at divergent boundaries between two slabs of oceanic crust.
  2. The study of the origin, history, and structure of Earth.
  3. A boundary between two tectonic plates that are sliding past each other.
  4. One of the large slabs of solid rock that make up Earth's lithosphere. It is also called a lithospheric plate.
  5. The movements and interactions of the large slabs of solid rock that make up Earth's lithosphere.
  6. The type of crust that makes up Earth's ocean floor.
  7. A shaking of the ground, usually produced by the sudden breaking or shifting of a large slab of rock. Earthquakes usually result in seismic waves.
  8. The transfer of energy via the movement of particles within a liquid or gas.
  9. A very long, narrow, and deep valley on the ocean floor.
  10. A range of undersea volcanoes that forms at a divergent boundary.
  11. The change in the location of Earth's continents over time.
  12. The layer of Earth that lies between the crust and the core.
  13. The outer layer of Earth that lies between the mantle and the surface and makes up the continents and the ocean floor.
  14. The type of crust that makes up Earth's continents and the continental shelves.
  15. The transfer of energy from one object to another by direct contact. Thermal energy transfers between colliding particles that make up matter at different temperatures.
Down
  1. The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the geologic past.
  2. Lines where two tectonic plates touch and interact.
  3. The process that occurs between plates at a convergent boundary. The edge of the denser plate moves under the edge of the less dense plate and sinks into the mantle.
  4. Strings or groups of mountains that are connected and formed by the same process.
  5. The process that occurs along a mid-ocean ridge and causes an ocean basin to grow wider. It occurs as new oceanic crust made of lava from volcanoes hardens and becomes part of two diverging plates.
  6. A hot, dense, mixture of melted rock and gases found beneath Earth's surface.
  7. The theory that explains how major features of Earth's surface form and change due to the movements of the plates that make up the lithosphere.
  8. A boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving toward each other.
  9. A boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.

24 Clues: Lines where two tectonic plates touch and interact. • The type of crust that makes up Earth's ocean floor. • A very long, narrow, and deep valley on the ocean floor. • The study of the origin, history, and structure of Earth. • The change in the location of Earth's continents over time. • The layer of Earth that lies between the crust and the core. • ...

Allegiant 2015-11-29

Allegiant crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Tris and Tobias have such a
  2. When Tobias finds out that Tris
  3. Told Tris she was divergent
  4. Tris did this because she
  5. Victims are put under this
  6. Loyal; faithful.
  7. David killed Tris with this object.
  8. Tobias finds a life like this.
  9. Tris and Tobias do this to keep
  10. Nita tried to start this when she
  11. A period of 1000 years.
  12. This is a word to define Tris
  13. This erases peoples memory
  14. Tris’s best friend.
  15. To twist the body about, or
  16. Tris did this when she
  17. These people and there
  18. Hazy, vague, indistinct, or
  19. Prior The main character.
  20. David was jealous of Natilies
  21. Tris and Caleb are mourning there
  22. New leader of the
  23. State that the experiment
  24. Tris is jealous of
  25. This is the job Tobias
  26. This character is also .
  27. Something left out, not done,
  28. Tris gives this up to save
  29. Damaged When your genes
  30. Out of keeping or place;
  31. This group decides to erase
  32. Tris did this to Christina’s
  33. Tobias gets very attached
  34. Nita set up this distraction
  35. This is what the city of Chicago
  36. Day This is the day Tobias
  37. This is when your genes are
  38. Markedly unusual in
  39. Tobias’s dad, Marcus does this
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  1. Peter and some others want to
  2. Tobias is genetically
  3. This is what Tobias does to
  4. Four goes along with Nita’s
  5. These are the people that will
  6. This person helped save
  7. Imitation or enactment, as
  8. Tris has to rely on Tobias and
  9. Christina has to forgive
  10. This is all Tobias does
  11. Tobias is very sorry for not
  12. This person abused his
  13. Tris has to own up to her
  14. The act of willing, choosing,
  15. This person who ran
  16. Tobias does this to his
  17. Tris saves David from Nita
  18. This what Tobias releases when
  19. Tobias just wants one more of
  20. This is what Tobias thinks
  21. Nita is passing these letters
  22. Tobias says that if something
  23. Tobias feels this emotion because
  24. Caleb needs a code to get to the
  25. Tobias has to welcome the
  26. Tobias’s dad is put outside the
  27. The brother of Tris.
  28. The city where Tris, Tobias,
  29. Caleb is a this definition
  30. Having a rugged, weather-
  31. This person tells Tobias that

70 Clues: Loyal; faithful. • New leader of the • Tris is jealous of • Tris’s best friend. • This person who ran • Markedly unusual in • The brother of Tris. • Tobias is genetically • This person abused his • Tris did this when she • These people and there • This is the job Tobias • This person helped save • This is all Tobias does • A period of 1000 years. • Tobias does this to his • ...

Scientific words 2022-09-15

Scientific words crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The location within earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs
  2. plate A block of lithosphere that contains of the crust and the rigid out most part of the mantle
  3. The center part of Earth Below the mantle
  4. rebound The sudden return of elastically deformed Rock to its unreformed shape
  5. The layer of rock between the Earth's crust and core
  6. The soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move
  7. A system of ideas that explains many related observations and is supported by a large body of evidence acquired through scientific investigation
  8. current Any movement of matter that results from differences in density may be vertical circular or cyclical
  9. The point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point or Focus
  10. quake A movement or trembling of the ground that is caused by sudden release of energy when rocks along a fault move
  11. boundry The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
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  1. The process by which one load the spirit plate moves beneath another plate as a result of tectonic forces
  2. The strong lower part of the mantle between the asthenosphere and the outer core
  3. plate boundary The Edge between two or more plates classified as divergent convergent or transform by the movement taking place between the plates
  4. The solid out outer layer of Earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle
  5. tectonics The theory that Earth's outer layer is made up of large moving pieces called tectonic plates the theory explains how plates in Iraq and how those interactions relate to processes such as earthquakes and mountain buildings
  6. The blinding tilting and breaking of Earth's crust the change in the shape of rock in response to stress
  7. reversal Process by which Earth's magnetic north pole and magnetic south pole switch positions periodically a change in the direction in which Earth's magnetic field points
  8. drift The hypothesis that a single large landmass broke up into smaller land masses to form the continents which then drifted to their present locations the movement of continents
  9. spreading The process by which New Oceanic lithosphere forms when magma rises to Earth's surface at mid ocean ridges and sell it Solid 5 as older existing seafloor and lives away from the ridge
  10. boundary The boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding
  11. A break in a body of rock along which one block moves relative to another
  12. The thin and solid out most layer of Earth above the mantle

23 Clues: The center part of Earth Below the mantle • The layer of rock between the Earth's crust and core • The thin and solid out most layer of Earth above the mantle • The soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move • boundary The boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding • ...

Plate tectonics game 2021-03-31

Plate tectonics game crossword puzzle
Across
  1. one goes under the other
  2. plates going to each other
Down
  1. plates going away from each other
  2. plates sliding past each other

4 Clues: one goes under the other • plates going to each other • plates sliding past each other • plates going away from each other

Plate tectonics game 2021-03-31

Plate tectonics game crossword puzzle
Across
  1. plates going away from each other
  2. plates sliding past each other
Down
  1. plates going to each other
  2. one goes under the other

4 Clues: one goes under the other • plates going to each other • plates sliding past each other • plates going away from each other

Ocean Features 2022-09-27

Ocean Features crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Land formed by sand.
  2. land formed by a divergent boundary.
Down
  1. A long narrow island lying parallel and close to the mainland, protecting the mainland from erosion and storms.
  2. The best example is the Mariana Trench.
  3. underwater mountains formed by volcanic activity.

5 Clues: Land formed by sand. • land formed by a divergent boundary. • The best example is the Mariana Trench. • underwater mountains formed by volcanic activity. • A long narrow island lying parallel and close to the mainland, protecting the mainland from erosion and storms.

Plate Tectonics 2023-09-21

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. two tectonic plates that move away from each other
  2. two tectonic plate sslide right by each other
Down
  1. two tectonic plates come toughter or overlap
  2. Something that makes valleys ocur
  3. something that housed in the mantle and the layer below the crust

5 Clues: Something that makes valleys ocur • two tectonic plates come toughter or overlap • two tectonic plate sslide right by each other • two tectonic plates that move away from each other • something that housed in the mantle and the layer below the crust

Science Midterm 2016-12-15

Science Midterm crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Seafloor spreading occurs at the Mid-Atlantic __________.
  2. Subduction occurs at the __________.
  3. The greater the mass of an object, the less acceleration an object has in motion. The greater the force an object is given, the more acceleration an object has in motion. This is called Newton’s __________ law.
  4. __________ currents occur when hot magma rises and cool magma sinks over and over.
  5. The __________ is the layer that is made up of rock.
  6. When a hemisphere receives more indirect sunlight, it is __________.
  7. __________ is the breaking down of rocks.
  8. The __________ of the Earth around the Sun takes one year.
  9. Transform boundaries can cause __________ to occur.
  10. An object is in __________ when it changes its position.
  11. When a hemisphere receives more direct sunlight, it is __________.
  12. __________ are pieces of sand, rock, and other materials.
  13. Convergent boundaries can cause __________ to form.
  14. The __________ of Earth takes one day.
  15. When any type of rock is melted, it becomes __________.
  16. Divergent boundaries can cause __________ spreading to happen.
  17. __________ rocks are formed from magma cooling and hardening.
  18. The revolution of the Moon around the Earth takes one __________.
  19. Earth has seasons because of its __________.
Down
  1. The __________ is the hottest and densest layer of the Earth.
  2. __________ boundaries occur when plates move apart.
  3. Convection __________ occur in the mantle.
  4. __________ is the movement of weathered rocks.
  5. __________ boundaries occur when plates come together.
  6. __________ drift theory is the theory that the continents once fit together but broke apart and slowly drifted apart.
  7. __________ occurs when the old rock layer is pushed back down into the mantle and melted into magma.
  8. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. This is called Newton’s __________ law.
  9. Seafloor __________ occurs when magma erupts from the Mid-Atlantic ridge and cools and hardens into a new rock layer.
  10. The change of speed is called __________.
  11. Sedimentary rocks are formed from cementation and __________ of sediments.
  12. __________ rocks are formed from heat and pressure.
  13. __________ is how heavy or light an object is for its size.
  14. __________ boundaries occur when plates slide past each other.
  15. The __________ is the layer that consists of magma.
  16. __________ is the supercontinent containing all the continents.
  17. If an object is in motion, it stays in motion until an unbalanced force acts on it. If an object is at rest, it stays at rest until an unbalanced force acts on it. This is called Newton’s __________ law.

36 Clues: Subduction occurs at the __________. • The __________ of Earth takes one day. • __________ is the breaking down of rocks. • The change of speed is called __________. • Convection __________ occur in the mantle. • Earth has seasons because of its __________. • __________ is the movement of weathered rocks. • __________ boundaries occur when plates move apart. • ...

7th Grade Science Review 2024-06-03

7th Grade Science Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. cycle of matter that includes bacteria, lightning, and dead organisms
  2. mass cannot be created nor destroyed
  3. the puzzle pieces of the lithosphere
  4. layer of Earth that includes the crust and the top of the mantle
  5. one possible path that energy can travel in an ecosystem
  6. energy that is stored
  7. found on the Periodic Table
  8. two or more elements bonded together chemically
  9. thinnest layer of the earth
  10. two or more elements or compounds NOT chemically combined
  11. layer of earth that is liquid
  12. smallest part of matter
  13. chemical change that releases energy in form of heat
  14. boundary where plates divide
  15. neutral particles in the nucleus of an atom
  16. positive particles in the nucleus of an atom
  17. the new molecules formed after a chemical reaction
  18. change that does not change the identity of a substance
  19. “What is the effect of - on -?”
  20. theory presented by Alfred Wegener
  21. rock made from melting and cooling
  22. invisible force around a magnet
  23. number one factor affecting population size
  24. if then because
  25. process that moves small rock pieces
  26. boundary where plates move together
Down
  1. variable you measure or observe during/after an experiment
  2. finding the age of a rock layer or fossil compared to others
  3. the ingredients in a chemical reaction
  4. negative particles that travel around the nucleus of an atom
  5. change that rearranges the atoms in molecules
  6. boundary where plates slide side by side
  7. name of the super continent
  8. variable that you change or test in an experiment
  9. thickest layer of earth
  10. process in which magma rises and cools at divergent oceanic plates
  11. chemical change that needs energy to occur
  12. process at convergent boundaries where dense crust goes under and melts into magma
  13. igneous rocks formed above ground
  14. potential energy __ as kinetic decreases
  15. hydrogen silver erbium
  16. polonium titanium
  17. anything from Earth which humans use
  18. always points north, unless near a magnet
  19. energy of movement
  20. number of organisms of one species that can live in an ecosystem
  21. rock made from compaction and cementation
  22. heat transfer in fluids; hot fluids rise and cool fluids sink
  23. rock made from heat and pressure
  24. all of the possible paths that energy can travel in an ecosystem
  25. cycle of matter that includes respiration, photosynthesis, and pollution
  26. process that breaks rock into smaller pieces
  27. product made from natural resources using chemical changes
  28. igneous rocks formed underground

54 Clues: if then because • polonium titanium • energy of movement • energy that is stored • hydrogen silver erbium • thickest layer of earth • smallest part of matter • name of the super continent • found on the Periodic Table • thinnest layer of the earth • boundary where plates divide • layer of earth that is liquid • “What is the effect of - on -?” • invisible force around a magnet • ...

Earth's history crossword 2025-01-09

Earth's history crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Hazard - A natural hazard, such as an earthquake, that cannot be accurately predicted.
  2. - Water stored in underground rock pores and aquifers.
  3. - A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
  4. Boundary - A plate boundary where two plates slide past each other, often causing earthquakes.
  5. - The breaking down of rocks and minerals on Earth’s surface due to exposure to weather conditions.
  6. Tectonics - A scientific theory explaining the movement of Earth’s lithosphere, which forms continents, mountains, and ocean ridges.
  7. Construction - Building techniques designed to minimize damage from wildfires.
  8. Eruption - The release of magma, gas, and ash from a volcano, often occurring at tectonic plate boundaries.
  9. - The process by which weathered material is transported by wind, water, or ice.
  10. Boundary - A plate boundary where two plates move apart, forming mid-ocean ridges or rift valleys.
  11. Hazard - A natural hazard, such as a volcanic eruption, that can be monitored and forecasted.
  12. Valley - A lowland region formed by the divergence of tectonic plates.
  13. - The layer of Earth beneath the crust, where convection currents occur.
  14. - The rigid outer layer of Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
  15. Distribution - The spread of fossils across continents, providing evidence for plate tectonics and continental drift.
Down
  1. Drift - The theory that continents have moved over geological time to their current locations.
  2. Boundary - A plate boundary where two plates collide, often forming mountains or causing subduction.
  3. Water - Water on the surface of the Earth, such as rivers, lakes, and oceans.
  4. - The process by which one tectonic plate moves under another, often at a convergent boundary.
  5. - A large ocean wave caused by underwater earthquakes or volcanic eruptions.
  6. Activity - Movements in the Earth's crust that often indicate potential earthquakes or volcanic activity.
  7. - The process by which surface water seeps into the ground to replenish groundwater.
  8. - A structure built to prevent flooding by holding back water.
  9. - A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, often caused by movement along a fault line.
  10. - A body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater.
  11. - Earth’s outermost layer, composed of rock.
  12. Currents - Circular movements of fluid caused by the heat from Earth’s core, driving plate tectonics.
  13. Spreading - The formation of new oceanic crust at mid-ocean ridges as plates move apart.
  14. Hazard - A natural event such as an earthquake, volcanic eruption, or severe weather that poses risks to humans and the environment.
  15. Ocean Ridge - An underwater mountain range formed by divergent plate boundaries and sea-floor spreading.

30 Clues: - Earth’s outermost layer, composed of rock. • - Water stored in underground rock pores and aquifers. • - A structure built to prevent flooding by holding back water. • - A body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater. • Valley - A lowland region formed by the divergence of tectonic plates. • ...

science choice board vocab 2 2022-09-14

science choice board vocab 2 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. current Any movement in matter that results from differences in density; may be vertical, circular, or cyclical.
  2. rebound The sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape.
  3. The solid outer layer of earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle.
  4. reversal The process by which earth's magnetic north pole and magnetic south pole switch positions periodically;a change in direction which earth magnetic field points.
  5. The process by which one lithospheric plate moves beneath as a result of tectonic forces.
  6. A break in a body of rock along which one block moves relative to another.
  7. The point of earth's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point, or focus.
  8. plate A block of lithosphere that consists of crust and rigid.
  9. The soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move.
  10. A movement or trembling of the ground that is caused by a sudden release of energy when rocks along a fault move.
  11. The location within earth along a fault at which the first motion of a earthquake is formed.
  12. A system of ideas that explains many related observations and is supported by a large body of evidence acquired through scientific investigation.
Down
  1. drift The hypothesis that a single large landmass broke up into smaller land masses to form continents, which then drifted to their present locations; the movement of continents.
  2. The central part of earth below the mantle.
  3. boundary The boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding.
  4. boundary The boundary between 2 tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally.
  5. The layer or rock between the earth crust and core.
  6. boundary The boundary of 2 tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
  7. The bending tilting and breaking of earth's crust.
  8. The thin and solid outermost layer or earth above the mantle.
  9. The strong lower part of the mantle between the asthenosphere and the outer core.
  10. plate boundary The edge between two or more plates classified as divergent, convergent, or transform by the movement taking place between the plates.
  11. spreading The process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms when magma rises to earth's surface at mid-ocean ridges and solidifies, as older, existing seafloor moves away from the ridge.
  12. tectonics The theory that the earth's outer layer is made up of large, moving pieces called tectonic plates; the theory explains how plates interact and how those interactions relate to processes such as earthquakes and mountain building.

24 Clues: The central part of earth below the mantle. • The bending tilting and breaking of earth's crust. • The layer or rock between the earth crust and core. • The thin and solid outermost layer or earth above the mantle. • plate A block of lithosphere that consists of crust and rigid. • The soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move. • ...

Rocks, Plates, and Human Impact 2022-04-22

Rocks, Plates, and Human Impact crossword puzzle
Across
  1. plate boundary where two plates move toward each other, often forming folded mountains, volcanoes, or undersea trenches
  2. process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
  3. a dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of Earth
  4. a descriptive scientific statement or equation that reliably predicts events without explaining them
  5. rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust.
  6. plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions; tends to cause earthquakes
  7. process by which fertile land becomes dry and arid as a result of drought or deforestation
  8. a type of rock that forms from an existing rock that is changed by heat, pressure, or chemical reactions.
  9. well-tested explanation that unifies a broad range of observations
  10. soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move
  11. a type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks or the remains of plants and animals are pressed and cemented together
  12. a type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface
  13. the strong, lower part of the mantle directly outside the outer core
  14. a testable prediction, often implied by a theory
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  1. a layer of molten iron and nickel deep inside earth
  2. the concept that earth's continents have moved across the earth's surface through geological time.
  3. the transition of land from being natural or rural to being developed
  4. an undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary, further driving plates apart
  5. processes by which previously broken-down particles of rock, sand, and soil are carried away
  6. the breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface.
  7. process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor at a divergent boundary
  8. a current caused by the rising of heated mantle material and sinking of cooled mantle material that moves tectonic plates
  9. the removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
  10. steep-sided depressions that form when the roof of an underground limesotne cave collapses
  11. plate boundary where two plates move away from each other., often forming mid-ocean ridges or rift vallies
  12. molten rock beneath the earth's surface
  13. theory explaining the structure earth and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of contiental plates that are in constant motion

27 Clues: molten rock beneath the earth's surface • a testable prediction, often implied by a theory • a layer of molten iron and nickel deep inside earth • soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move • a dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of Earth • the removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves. • ...

8.2 CW 3 2025-11-04

8.2 CW 3 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A sudden shaking of the ground caused by the movement of tectonic plates along faults.
  2. The theory that continents move slowly over the Earth's surface, changing their positions over time.
  3. A tectonic plate boundary where two plates collide, leading to the formation of mountains, trenches, or volcanic activity.
  4. The process by which new oceanic crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges and older crust is pushed away.
  5. A major area in the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur due to tectonic activity.
  6. When two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and mountains are formed
  7. An opening in the sea floor that releases heated water and minerals, typically found near tectonic plate boundaries.
  8. scientist that developed the idea of continental drift
  9. The rigid outer part of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
  10. The eruption of magma from the Earth's interior, often associated with tectonic plate boundaries.
  11. A tectonic plate boundary where two plates move apart, often resulting in seafloor spreading.
  12. The semi-fluid layer beneath the lithosphere where convection currents occur, allowing tectonic plates to move.
  13. The process by which one tectonic plate is forced under another plate, often leading to volcanic activity and earthquakes.
Down
  1. Large sections of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other.
  2. scientist that discovered sea-floor spreading
  3. An underwater mountain range formed by seafloor spreading at a divergent boundary in the Atlantic Ocean.
  4. The geographic spread of fossils found in different locations, which can provide evidence for historical plate movements.
  5. The study of the magnetic properties of rocks to understand the historical movements of tectonic plates.
  6. A change in Earth’s magnetic field recorded in rocks that provides evidence for seafloor spreading
  7. A lowland region formed by the divergence of tectonic plates, often characterized by volcanic activity.
  8. The movement of molten rock in the mantle caused by heat from the Earth's interior, which drives plate movements.
  9. A tectonic plate boundary where two plates slide past one another, causing earthquakes.
  10. A series of volcanic islands formed at a convergent boundary, typically where an oceanic plate subducts under another oceanic plate.
  11. The edges where two tectonic plates meet, where geological activity such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions often occur.
  12. A deep, narrow depression in the ocean floor formed at convergent plate boundaries where one plate subducts beneath another.
  13. A location in the mantle where heat causes the melting of rock, leading to volcanic activity, independent of plate boundaries.

26 Clues: scientist that discovered sea-floor spreading • scientist that developed the idea of continental drift • The rigid outer part of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle. • When two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and mountains are formed • Large sections of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other. • ...

Plate Techtonics 2016-03-31

Plate Techtonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Atlantic Ridge- is a mid-ocean ridge, a divergent tectonic plate or constructive plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world.
  2. a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust.
  3. boundary- are places where plates slide sideways past each other.
  4. boundary- is an actively deforming region where two or more tectonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere move toward one another and collide.
  5. Currents- a current in a fluid that results from convection.
  6. a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
  7. of Plate Tectonics- a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under,or move past adjacent plates.
  8. a long, narrow ditch.
  9. ranges- a line of mountains connected by high ground.
Down
  1. boundary- is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
  2. of fire- an area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.
  3. Valley- a large elongated depression with steep walls formed by the downward displacement of a block of the earth's surface between nearly parallel faults or fault systems.
  4. crust- the relatively thick part of the earth's crust that forms the large landmasses. It is generally older and more complex than the oceanic crust.
  5. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
  6. an extended break in a body of rock, marked by the relative displacement and discontinuity of strata on either side of a particular surface.
  7. ridges- an elevated region with a central valley on an ocean floor at the boundary between two diverging tectonic plates where new crust forms from upwelling magma.
  8. Andreas Fault- a continental transform fault that extends roughly 1300 km through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.

17 Clues: a long, narrow ditch. • ranges- a line of mountains connected by high ground. • Currents- a current in a fluid that results from convection. • boundary- are places where plates slide sideways past each other. • boundary- is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other. • ...

Precalculus B Escape Room 2023-02-22

Precalculus B Escape Room crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the type of polynomial division that only includes coefficients of the terms
  2. a series that never limits out to an answer, but grows exponentially is called _
  3. the Greek letter used to represent angles in trigonometry
  4. the name of the square root symbol
  5. a value that a function approaches, but never touches
Down
  1. the limit of a function which does not approach the same value on each side of the given x-value
  2. a conic section whose points are all equidistant to two points called the foci
  3. the u-shape of a quadratic function
  4. defined as y/x for angles on the unit circle

9 Clues: the name of the square root symbol • the u-shape of a quadratic function • defined as y/x for angles on the unit circle • a value that a function approaches, but never touches • the Greek letter used to represent angles in trigonometry • the type of polynomial division that only includes coefficients of the terms • ...

Key words geophysical hazards 2023-01-12

Key words geophysical hazards crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the location inside the earth´s crust where an earthquake occurred
  2. the layer of soft - liquid rock under the crust
  3. the place on the earth´s surface directly above the focus
  4. A landform created on the sea floor at subduction zones
  5. helps to measure the strength of earthquakes and also the location of the epicentre
  6. plate boundaries cause sea floor spreading and rift valleys
Down
  1. the faster moving seismic waves radiating out from the earthquake
  2. ____ currents which cause the tectonic plates to slowly move position
  3. ___ faults are when the tectonic plates move sideways to eachother, eg. In California

9 Clues: the layer of soft - liquid rock under the crust • A landform created on the sea floor at subduction zones • the place on the earth´s surface directly above the focus • plate boundaries cause sea floor spreading and rift valleys • the faster moving seismic waves radiating out from the earthquake • the location inside the earth´s crust where an earthquake occurred • ...

Vocabulary 2024-02-27

Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The thin, rocky outer layer of earth.
  2. When tectonic plates move toward each other.
  3. convection Unqual distribution of heat within Earth that causes the thermal circulation that drives plate motion.
Down
  1. When tectonic plates move in opposite directions
  2. the 2,890km thick layer of earth located below the crust.
  3. The rigid layer of outer Earth including the crust upper mantle.

6 Clues: The thin, rocky outer layer of earth. • When tectonic plates move toward each other. • When tectonic plates move in opposite directions • the 2,890km thick layer of earth located below the crust. • The rigid layer of outer Earth including the crust upper mantle. • ...

Continental Drift 2024-03-21

Continental Drift crossword puzzle
Across
  1. subduction occurs at ______ plate boundries
  2. all lands
  3. what boundaries cause Volcanos,Mountains,Trenches,and earthquakes
Down
  1. what boundary causes earthquakes,Volcanos, mid-ocean trenches, and rift valleys
  2. what boundary causes earthquakes

5 Clues: all lands • what boundary causes earthquakes • subduction occurs at ______ plate boundries • what boundaries cause Volcanos,Mountains,Trenches,and earthquakes • what boundary causes earthquakes,Volcanos, mid-ocean trenches, and rift valleys

Continental Drift 2024-03-21

Continental Drift crossword puzzle
Across
  1. subduction occurs at ______ plate boundries
  2. all lands
  3. what boundaries cause Volcanos,Mountains,Trenches,and earthquakes
Down
  1. what boundary causes earthquakes,Volcanos, mid-ocean trenches, and rift valleys
  2. what boundary causes earthquakes

5 Clues: all lands • what boundary causes earthquakes • subduction occurs at ______ plate boundries • what boundaries cause Volcanos,Mountains,Trenches,and earthquakes • what boundary causes earthquakes,Volcanos, mid-ocean trenches, and rift valleys

Tectonic Plates 2024-03-23

Tectonic Plates crossword puzzle
Across
  1. boundary where plates come together
  2. boundary where plates slide past each other
Down
  1. creater of the tectonic plate theory
  2. boundary that makes valleys

4 Clues: boundary that makes valleys • boundary where plates come together • creater of the tectonic plate theory • boundary where plates slide past each other

Continental Drift 2024-03-21

Continental Drift crossword puzzle
Across
  1. subduction occurs at ______ plate boundries
  2. all lands
  3. what boundaries cause Volcanos,Mountains,Trenches,and earthquakes
Down
  1. what boundary causes earthquakes,Volcanos, mid-ocean trenches, and rift valleys
  2. what boundary causes earthquakes

5 Clues: all lands • what boundary causes earthquakes • subduction occurs at ______ plate boundries • what boundaries cause Volcanos,Mountains,Trenches,and earthquakes • what boundary causes earthquakes,Volcanos, mid-ocean trenches, and rift valleys

Plate boundaries 2015-03-06

Plate boundaries crossword puzzle
Across
  1. dormer when a divergent boundary it happens in oceanic crust
  2. formed by a transform boundary
  3. formed by convergent boundaries when it is continental to oceanic crust
  4. when two plates start splitting away from each other
Down
  1. when two plates go together and form a mountain or a volcanic island
  2. when two plates start to rub against each other and start a earthquake

6 Clues: formed by a transform boundary • when two plates start splitting away from each other • dormer when a divergent boundary it happens in oceanic crust • when two plates go together and form a mountain or a volcanic island • when two plates start to rub against each other and start a earthquake • ...

faults and boundaries 2023-03-24

faults and boundaries crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when two plates come together
  2. The block above the fault moves up relative to the block below the fault
  3. Vault The block above the fault has moved downward
Down
  1. Occurs when two tectonic plates move away
  2. Volcanism is unique because it does not occur at the boundaries
  3. boundary A broad zone forming as the pacific plate past the north american plate

6 Clues: when two plates come together • Occurs when two tectonic plates move away • Vault The block above the fault has moved downward • Volcanism is unique because it does not occur at the boundaries • The block above the fault moves up relative to the block below the fault • boundary A broad zone forming as the pacific plate past the north american plate

Plate Techtonics 2016-03-31

Plate Techtonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. of Plate Tectonics a theory of global tectonics in which the lithosphere is divided into a number of crustal plates, each of which moves on the plastic asthenosphere more or less independently to collide with, slide under,or move past adjacent plates.
  2. crust the relatively thin part of the earth's crust that underlies the ocean basins. It is geologically young compared with the continental crust and consists of basaltic rock overlain by sediments.
  3. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
  4. boundary is an actively deforming region where two or more tectonic plates or fragments of the lithosphere move toward one another and collide.
  5. Currents a current in a fluid that results from convection.
  6. a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
  7. Valley a large elongated depression with steep walls formed by the downward displacement of a block of the earth's surface between nearly parallel faults or fault systems.
  8. boundary are places where plates slide sideways past each other.
  9. an extended break in a body of rock, marked by the relative displacement and discontinuity of strata on either side of a particular surface.
Down
  1. ranges a line of mountains connected by high ground.
  2. crust the relatively thick part of the earth's crust that forms the large landmasses. It is generally older and more complex than the oceanic crust.
  3. Atlantic Ridge is a mid-ocean ridge, a divergent tectonic plate or constructive plate boundary located along the floor of the Atlantic Ocean, and part of the longest mountain range in the world.
  4. Andreas Fault a continental transform fault that extends roughly 1300 km through California. It forms the tectonic boundary between the Pacific Plate and the North American Plate.
  5. boundary is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
  6. a long, narrow ditch.
  7. a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust.
  8. of fire an area in the basin of the Pacific Ocean where a large number of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur.

17 Clues: a long, narrow ditch. • ranges a line of mountains connected by high ground. • Currents a current in a fluid that results from convection. • boundary are places where plates slide sideways past each other. • boundary is a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other. • ...

Plate Tectonics 2021-03-26

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Plates sliding past each other
  2. Plates moving away from each other
  3. This is caused by seafloor spreading where two plates move away from each other
Down
  1. Plates moving towards each other
  2. when two plates hit one another, it can cause this event.

5 Clues: Plates sliding past each other • Plates moving towards each other • Plates moving away from each other • when two plates hit one another, it can cause this event. • This is caused by seafloor spreading where two plates move away from each other

Four 2015-01-05

Four crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a blood feud in which the family of a murdered person seeks vengeance on the murderer or the murderer's family
  2. make bad continue indefinitely
  3. a person under the authority or control of another within an organization Hallucination an experience involving the apparent perception of something not present
Down
  1. unable to think clearly; confused
  2. having no current or flow and often having an unpleasant smell as a consequence
  3. tending to be different or develop in different directions
  4. having the effect of allaying suspicion or hostility, especially through charm
  5. as is certain to happen; unavoidably
  6. of, based on, or serving as a hypothesis

9 Clues: make bad continue indefinitely • unable to think clearly; confused • as is certain to happen; unavoidably • of, based on, or serving as a hypothesis • tending to be different or develop in different directions • having the effect of allaying suspicion or hostility, especially through charm • ...

Bookish Crossword! 2022-02-08

Bookish Crossword! crossword puzzle
Across
  1. In the book Shiver by Maggie Stivater, what state does the main character, Grace, live in?
  2. In the Divergent Trilogy, what faction wears blue?
  3. In the Selection series by Kiera Cass, what is the main characeter's last name?
  4. In the Hunger Games, what district is Katniss from?
Down
  1. In the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series, who is Nico DiAngelo's father?
  2. How many chapters does The Call of The Wild by Jack London have?
  3. How many Hogwarts Houses are there?
  4. True or False: In Twilight, is Edward Cullen adopted?
  5. How many books are there in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series?

9 Clues: How many Hogwarts Houses are there? • In the Divergent Trilogy, what faction wears blue? • In the Hunger Games, what district is Katniss from? • True or False: In Twilight, is Edward Cullen adopted? • How many chapters does The Call of The Wild by Jack London have? • How many books are there in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series? • ...

Unit 2 Vocabulary 2021-12-21

Unit 2 Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The process of a tectonic sliding under a plate as the result of both colliding with each other
  2. The fluid layer of the Earth made of iron and nickel
  3. The outermost layer of the Earth
  4. The semi-liquid layer of magma/molten rock in the Earth
  5. The plate tectonic movement where two plates collide with each other
Down
  1. The solid, innermost layer of the Earth
  2. Massive, irregular-shaped sections of the Earth's outermost layer
  3. The plate tectonic movement where two plates move away from each other
  4. The plate tectonic movement where two plates slide sideways past each other

9 Clues: The outermost layer of the Earth • The solid, innermost layer of the Earth • The fluid layer of the Earth made of iron and nickel • The semi-liquid layer of magma/molten rock in the Earth • Massive, irregular-shaped sections of the Earth's outermost layer • The plate tectonic movement where two plates collide with each other • ...

Earthquakes 2021-08-26

Earthquakes crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The boundary where the plates slide apart from each other
  2. The zone that causes the most destructive earthquakes
  3. The boundary where the plates slide towards each other
  4. this is the result of the soil behaving more like a liquid than a solid during an earthquake.
  5. The boundary where the plates move past each other
Down
  1. the point on the earths surface above the focus of the earthquake
  2. How we measure earthquakes
  3. the pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle
  4. this is made up of the brittle crust and the top part of the upper mantle.

9 Clues: How we measure earthquakes • the pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle • The boundary where the plates move past each other • The zone that causes the most destructive earthquakes • The boundary where the plates slide towards each other • The boundary where the plates slide apart from each other • ...

Plate tectonics lab stations 2021-11-18

Plate tectonics lab stations crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the movement of two tectonic plates
  2. the result of a diversion boundary when there is a long crack in earths crust
  3. where the boundaries of two tectonic plates meet
  4. when two tectonic plates move towards, either subducting or creating mountains
  5. molten rock from the earths mantle
Down
  1. when the less dense, oceanic crust collides with the more dense, continental crust, causing it to sink into the earth
  2. when two tectonic plates move outwards, creating new crust
  3. when two tectonic plates slide past each other, causing earthquakes
  4. a hole in the earth where magma can spill onto the crust

9 Clues: molten rock from the earths mantle • the movement of two tectonic plates • where the boundaries of two tectonic plates meet • a hole in the earth where magma can spill onto the crust • when two tectonic plates move outwards, creating new crust • when two tectonic plates slide past each other, causing earthquakes • ...

The original Jérka & Tys kruiswoordraadsel #yoloswag 2014-07-28

The original Jérka & Tys kruiswoordraadsel #yoloswag crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Hier bevind mijn prinsesje zich heel vaak (-hint- Gedeelte van een woonperceel bedoeld voor het parkeren of stallen van een voertuig)
  2. Spektakel dat we samen nog gaan zien
  3. Hier hebben we gezeten toen je voor de eerste keer naar de joppe kwam
  4. Chiro Libertus heeft dit soort mensen in overvloed (-hint- Persoon vermoedelijk zonder ziel)
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  1. Het zonder twijfel enige normale huisdier van de De borger familie
  2. Land dat we beter kunnen mijden als we in September nog op vakantie gaan
  3. Activiteit dat ik al even moet missen
  4. Rotste film die we samen zagen
  5. Miaaauw, miaaauw, ljieve...

9 Clues: Miaaauw, miaaauw, ljieve... • Rotste film die we samen zagen • Spektakel dat we samen nog gaan zien • Activiteit dat ik al even moet missen • Het zonder twijfel enige normale huisdier van de De borger familie • Hier hebben we gezeten toen je voor de eerste keer naar de joppe kwam • Land dat we beter kunnen mijden als we in September nog op vakantie gaan • ...

Plate Tectonics 2023-02-28

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when an oceanic plate runs into a continental plate and slides beneath it.
  2. extremely hot liquid and semi-liquid rock located under Earth's surface.
  3. the splitting apart of a single tectonic plate into two or more tectonic plates separated by divergent plate boundaries.
  4. an opening in the Earth's crust through which lava, ash, and gases erupt.
Down
  1. the border between two plates.
  2. A tectonic boundary where two plates are moving toward each other. I
  3. places where plates slide sideways past each other.
  4. In the subduction zone where tectonic plates collide
  5. large slabs of rock that divide Earth's crust,

9 Clues: the border between two plates. • large slabs of rock that divide Earth's crust, • places where plates slide sideways past each other. • In the subduction zone where tectonic plates collide • A tectonic boundary where two plates are moving toward each other. I • extremely hot liquid and semi-liquid rock located under Earth's surface. • ...

techtonic plate 2022-11-02

techtonic plate crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust.
  2. a fault along a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal
  3. tech tonic plates formed under the ocean
  4. techtonic plates that are not under the ocean
  5. Tectonic plates are gigantic pieces of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle.
  6. a belief that one time all plates are connected and were one big island
Down
  1. on top and under
  2. away
  3. : a idea that all continents were once one land mass
  4. a fault along a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal

10 Clues: away • on top and under • tech tonic plates formed under the ocean • techtonic plates that are not under the ocean • : a idea that all continents were once one land mass • a belief that one time all plates are connected and were one big island • a fault along a plate boundary where the motion is predominantly horizontal • ...

BSBCRT511 2025-01-22

BSBCRT511 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Thinking The process of analyzing information to make decisions.
  2. An essential skill in critical thinking that involves looking back at past decisions.
  3. A skill that involves thinking about thinking.
  4. Thinking A method of solving problems by breaking them down into smaller steps.
Down
  1. Bias The tendency to favor information that confirms preexisting beliefs.
  2. A cognitive error that can lead to poor decision-making when group members avoid disagreement.
  3. Thinking A practice of solving problems by exploring many possible solutions.
  4. Reflection A thinking style that seeks multiple perspectives.
  5. The ability to generate new ideas and solutions.
  6. A framework for evaluating whether actions are morally right or wrong.

10 Clues: A skill that involves thinking about thinking. • The ability to generate new ideas and solutions. • Reflection A thinking style that seeks multiple perspectives. • Thinking The process of analyzing information to make decisions. • A framework for evaluating whether actions are morally right or wrong. • ...

Continental Vocab Board 2025-01-27

Continental Vocab Board crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Current a current in a fluid that results from convection.
  2. a single supercontinent
  3. Wegener originator of continental drift hypothesis
Down
  1. Drift the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.
  2. Boundaries occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other
  3. of Plate Tectonics explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements

6 Clues: a single supercontinent • Wegener originator of continental drift hypothesis • Current a current in a fluid that results from convection. • Boundaries occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other • Drift the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time. • ...

Physical Geography of Africa 2025-02-27

Physical Geography of Africa crossword puzzle
Across
  1. transition zone between the more humid Sudanian savannas to its south and the drier Sahara to the north.
  2. River major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.
  3. mountains a mountain range in the Maghreb in North Africa.
Down
  1. Largest Desert in the world
  2. Basin Largest Rainforest in the world
  3. Rift Valley divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar triple

6 Clues: Largest Desert in the world • Basin Largest Rainforest in the world • River major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. • mountains a mountain range in the Maghreb in North Africa. • Rift Valley divergent plate boundary which extends from the Afar triple • ...

Plate Motion 2024-10-27

Plate Motion crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Something that we observe to be similar over and over again.
  2. A sudden shaking of the earth’s surface.
Down
  1. The layer of soft and solid rock underneath earth’s plates. Hint: 5 letters and starts with the letter M.
  2. Plates that move away from each other.
  3. Plates that move towards the same place.
  4. How fast something happens Hint:4 letters

6 Clues: Plates that move away from each other. • Plates that move towards the same place. • A sudden shaking of the earth’s surface. • How fast something happens Hint:4 letters • Something that we observe to be similar over and over again. • The layer of soft and solid rock underneath earth’s plates. Hint: 5 letters and starts with the letter M.

Tectonic Plates 2021-06-17

Tectonic Plates crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Slowly moving pieces of Earth's crust.
  2. A scientist who studies earthquakes.
  3. A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates slide past each other.
  4. When one tectonic plate converges under another due to density differences.
  5. A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move away from each other.
Down
  1. Movement caused by warm fluids rising and cooler fluids sinking.
  2. A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move towards each other.
  3. The outer most layer of the Earth. This is the layer we walk on.
  4. When two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and mountains are formed.

9 Clues: A scientist who studies earthquakes. • Slowly moving pieces of Earth's crust. • Movement caused by warm fluids rising and cooler fluids sinking. • The outer most layer of the Earth. This is the layer we walk on. • A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates slide past each other. • A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move towards each other. • ...