divergent Crossword Puzzles
2.2 Geologic Processes 2024-11-13
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- boundary where 2 plates pull apart
- rock that is formed when a rock is exposed to intense pressure and heat without melting
- forms when an oceanic plate collides with another plate
- this happens to rock and turns into magma or lava
- forms when two continental plates collide
- moves rocks and sediment
- pieces of rock created that have been broken down
- rock formed when magma and lava cools and hardens
- Earth layer made of solid iron and nickel
- boundary where 2 plates move past each other
- occurs when plants are lost due to climate change and cutting down trees leading to increased temperatures and little to no rainfall
- Earth layer made of liquid iron and nickel
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- middle layer of Earth between the crust and the core
- creates sediment
- occurs when large numbers of trees are removed from one area at the same time
- type of rock formed when sediment is compacted and cemented
- occurs when the population of an area increases drastically
- surface layer of Earth that is made of the crust and upper mantle and is divided into pieces
- event that can happen at any boundary but are most common at transform boundaries
- drops sediment in a new location
- boundary where 2 plates collide
21 Clues: creates sediment • moves rocks and sediment • boundary where 2 plates collide • drops sediment in a new location • boundary where 2 plates pull apart • forms when two continental plates collide • Earth layer made of solid iron and nickel • Earth layer made of liquid iron and nickel • boundary where 2 plates move past each other • ...
Plate Tectonics 2025-08-15
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- This is the area where you will find most of the volcanoes in the world
- The layer of the earth with the lowest density
- The theory that plates slowly move the continents over time
- Type of boundary where two plates slide past each other
- Layer of the earth that includes crust and solid upper mantle
- Contains solid iron inside the earth
- Lava that is below the Earth’s surface
- Layer of the earth that contains magma
- This is created in the ocean when subduction occurs
- Process where one plate moves below another plate
- This is where two tectonic plates meet
- The process of circulating liquid as it heats and cools
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- The 750-mile long fault in California that is created by a transform boundary
- Large chunks of lithosphere that gradually move
- Layer of the earth that contains the asthenosphere
- This natural disaster is caused by plates moving
- The scientist credited for the Continental Drift theory
- Type of boundary where two plates separate
- The deepest part of the ocean floor
- The prehistoric conglomerate of the 7 continents all combined
- The mountain range in Colorado that is created by a collision at a convergent boundary
- Contains liquid iron inside the earth
- Type of boundary where two plates collide
23 Clues: The deepest part of the ocean floor • Contains solid iron inside the earth • Contains liquid iron inside the earth • Lava that is below the Earth’s surface • Layer of the earth that contains magma • This is where two tectonic plates meet • Type of boundary where two plates collide • Type of boundary where two plates separate • ...
Geology 3 2025-11-23
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- A type of deformation where rocks change in shape but do not fracture
- Type of metamorphism where foliated rocks are formed
- Fracture in a rock with no displacement
- The average pattern and variability of weather over a long period of time
- Type of rock formed from other rocks through pressure and temperature
- A type of deformation where rocks are fractured
- The force found at transform plate boundaries
- The force found at convergent plate boundaries
- The study of the movement and characteristics of water on and below Earth's surface
- Planar feature in a metamorphic rock created from pressure
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- Type of metamorphism where non-foliated rocks are formed
- The angle of a deformed structure measured from North using the right hand rule
- Loops that describe how different spheres interact to effect climate
- A type of map that shows the change in elevation
- A type of map that shows different geologic units and features
- Fracture in a rock with displacement
- Describes how well a fluid can flow through a soil
- Defines the amount of temperature and pressure during metamorphism
- The force found at divergent plate boundaries
- Describes the volume of water that a soil can hold
- The angle of a deformed structure measured from the horizontal
21 Clues: Fracture in a rock with displacement • Fracture in a rock with no displacement • The force found at divergent plate boundaries • The force found at transform plate boundaries • The force found at convergent plate boundaries • A type of deformation where rocks are fractured • A type of map that shows the change in elevation • ...
CGC1W Review Crossword 2025-06-11
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- Group that is not working, which includes children 14 and younger, and seniors 65 and over
- When immigrating, these factors make a particular country seem 'attractive'
- Improving the quality of life while living protecting the environment
- Acronym for the requirements of a map
- Plate movement common along mid-ocean ridges
- The most sustainable method of harvesting wood
- The dramatic increase in the birth rate after World War II
- Characteristics of a community that contribute to quality of life
- Settlement pattern typical along coastlines or highways
- The landform region with the largest population
- Anything that is found useful to humans
- The geographic perspective that looks at impacts on the land, including plants and animals
- Countries with the highest standard of living
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- Capital of New Brunswick
- The province/territory west of the Northwest Territories
- The climate factor that would have the greatest impact on Iqaluit, NU
- Physical process responsible for the creation of the Great Lakes
- A person moving out of a country
- The ocean off the coasts of the Maritime provinces
- The climate factor that would have the greatest impact on Calgary, AB
- The study of population
- The process of people moving from rural to urban areas
22 Clues: The study of population • Capital of New Brunswick • A person moving out of a country • Acronym for the requirements of a map • Anything that is found useful to humans • Plate movement common along mid-ocean ridges • Countries with the highest standard of living • The most sustainable method of harvesting wood • The landform region with the largest population • ...
Earth's Systems and Materials Review 2025-10-21
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- The movement of Earth’s plates that shapes Earth’s surface.
- Supercontinent that once included all the continents joined together.
- When oceanic and continental plates collide, this landform can form.
- Solid metal layer at Earth’s center.
- Solid outer layer of the Earth where we live.
- Type of boundary where two plates push together.
- Earth’s outermost mechanical layer made of solid plates.
- Scientist who discovered seafloor spreading
- The soft, hot layer beneath the lithosphere where rock flows slowly.
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- Rising and sinking of hot and cool rock in the mantle that moves the plates.
- The force field around Earth caused by movement in the core, part of what causes auroras.
- Waves that move side-to-side, up and down, shear rocks, and can only travel through solids.
- The liquid metal layer surrounding the inner core.
- The middle compositional layer made of hot rock.
- Waves that move by pushing and squeezing; they can travel through solids and liquids.
- The scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift.
- Evidence of the same _____ found on different continents supported continental drift.
- Plates slide past each other at this type of boundary.
- Chain of islands formed as a tectonic plate moves over a stationary hot spot.
- Type of boundary where plates move apart and new crust forms.
20 Clues: Solid metal layer at Earth’s center. • Scientist who discovered seafloor spreading • Solid outer layer of the Earth where we live. • The middle compositional layer made of hot rock. • Type of boundary where two plates push together. • The liquid metal layer surrounding the inner core. • Plates slide past each other at this type of boundary. • ...
Final Vocab Review Name:_________________ 2025-12-15
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- half of the Earth divided between north and south or east and west
- term for when twice a year the day and night are of equal length
- weather conditions lasting for an extended period
- type of tectonic plate boundary where the plates pull away from one another
- a nation with its own government and specific territory
- type of population pyramid seen in less developed countries
- type of tectonic plate boundary that results in mountains
- term for when twice a year the time difference day and night is the largest
- area of earthquake activity near a transform tectonic boundary
- the type of 'exchange' that occurred between europe, africa, and the carribean in the 1700s
- unregulated slums of south america
- an area of land under foreign rule or government
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- term for the U.K.'s departure from the E.U.
- a piece of land almost entirely surrounded by water
- the act of clearing large areas of trees for economic development
- any of the world's continuous landmasses
- the collective group of 27 countries overseeing europe
- the growing interconnectedness of the world and its economies
- area of the world with the most active volcanoes
- type of population pyramid found in more developed countries
20 Clues: unregulated slums of south america • any of the world's continuous landmasses • term for the U.K.'s departure from the E.U. • area of the world with the most active volcanoes • an area of land under foreign rule or government • weather conditions lasting for an extended period • a piece of land almost entirely surrounded by water • ...
Earth's Forces 2022-04-28
Plate Tectonic Crossword Puzzle 2022-01-14
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- theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion
- discontinuity in a volume of rock across where there has been a lot of displacement from rock-mass movements
- surface shaking on Earth from a sudden release of energy in Earth's lithosphere
- pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle
- The Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into sections called
- area of Earth's mantle where hot plumes rise upward, forming a volcano on the crust
- where two or more lithospheric plates collide
- linear shaped lowland between mountain ranges created from a geologic rift
- chain of volcanoes formed above a subducting plate, positioned in an arc shape
- vertical elevation of the Earth's surface in response to natural causes
- oceanic trench area marginal to a continent
- formation of new areas of oceanic crust
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- idea that continents havee and are still moving slowly across Earth
- two tectonic plates that are MOVING AWAY from each other
- edge of Earth's plates meet at this boundary
- fault along a plate boundary where motion is mostly horizontal
- what makes the plate move
- when a rock snaps from stress
- rock gets thin as it pulls apart
- the edge where two plates meet
20 Clues: what makes the plate move • when a rock snaps from stress • the edge where two plates meet • rock gets thin as it pulls apart • formation of new areas of oceanic crust • oceanic trench area marginal to a continent • edge of Earth's plates meet at this boundary • pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle • where two or more lithospheric plates collide • ...
Rocketry Terms Crossword 2022-02-26
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- This component is mostly found on the motor, but some smaller rockets have one
- This is drilled through the propellant in order to increase the propellant surface area
- This part of the motor is activated after the delay grain burns through
- Holds the pieces of the rocket together during descent
- This is deployed first in a dual deployment configuration
- This is used to light the motor
- This component of a motor is ignited at motor ignition
- Regulates air pressure inside the rocket
- This is used to hold the motor from ejecting out the aft end of the rocket
- The most popular rocketry company that specializes in brand rocket motors and motor hardware
- This protects the parachute from the hot gasses produced by the ejection charge
- This protects the casing from the burning propellant
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- This component has a convergent, divergent, and throat
- This rocket component contains the motor
- Found on an altimeter bay
- There is an equal amount of mass forward and aft of this point
- This is the unit of measurement used to measure stability
- The single point where the average of all aerodynamic forces acts through the rocket
- A very significant component of the motor
- Measures the altitude based on air pressure readings
20 Clues: Found on an altimeter bay • This is used to light the motor • This rocket component contains the motor • Regulates air pressure inside the rocket • A very significant component of the motor • Measures the altitude based on air pressure readings • This protects the casing from the burning propellant • This component has a convergent, divergent, and throat • ...
21st Century Skills 2022-02-07
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- seeking truth or information
- the ability to read; competence in a specific area
- thinking that is expansive, prolific, and original
- what we observe in an experiment to see if/how it is affected by the independent variable
- coming closer together, especially in characteristics or ideas
- values or factors in an experiment that do not change
- begins with details, looking for patterns or processes in the larger context
- begins with a general question and works toward specific observations
- an assumption or prediction about a problem or question
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- one half of something, eg. the brain
- thinking that is focused, careful, and intentional
- to work with others to achieve a common goal
- the exchange of information or ideas between two people or things
- a plan, method or series of steps for obtaining a specific goal or result
- the factor in an experiment that the scientist changes, represents the cause for the outcome
- to examine something to find out what it is or how it works
- to move apart or develop in different directions
- summarizes how your results do or do not support your hypothesis
- a body system made up of the brain, spinal cord, and nerves
- group used as the standard of comparison for checking the results of an experiment
20 Clues: seeking truth or information • one half of something, eg. the brain • to work with others to achieve a common goal • to move apart or develop in different directions • thinking that is focused, careful, and intentional • the ability to read; competence in a specific area • thinking that is expansive, prolific, and original • ...
Tectonic Plates 2013-09-30
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- reptile fossil found in South America and Africa
- earths biggest plate
- is a famous divergent boundary
- this is formed when two plates crash into each other and crumple
- fossil plant found in, Africa, Australia, India, South America, and Antartica
- this rigid layer is about 100m thick genrally is less dense than material underneath
- earths crust and part of the upper mantle are broken into sections
- a version of this same process, occurring in the mantle, is thought to be the force behind plate tectonics
- suggested the theory of seafloor spreading
- plastic like layer of the mantle
- mountains similar to those in Greenland and Western Europe
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- __________Boundary; two plates are moving together, sometimes plates subduct under each other
- Hess's theory that new seafloor is formed when magma is forced upward toward the surface at the mid-ocean ridge
- evidence that africa was once cold
- plates flout on the plastic like layer of the ______
- _________Boundary; two plates slide past each other, can move in opposite directions, can move in same direction at different rates
- Wegner's name for one large landmass
- the plastic like layer below the lithosphere
- slow movement of continents
- earthquakes are very common in this state
20 Clues: earths biggest plate • slow movement of continents • is a famous divergent boundary • plastic like layer of the mantle • evidence that africa was once cold • Wegner's name for one large landmass • earthquakes are very common in this state • suggested the theory of seafloor spreading • the plastic like layer below the lithosphere • ...
Tectonic Action 2013-12-11
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- Comes second, much more destructive.
- Eruption 74,000 years ago, plunged Earth into volcanic winter.
- 1883 eruption killed 36,000.
- Eruption in 1980, killed 57.
- Action of water coming to surface during earthquake.
- Capital of most earthquake prone country.
- One plate moving under another.
- Molten rock under crust of Earth.
- "Flow" of super-heated ash and gases.
- Scale that measures power of earthquakes.
- Comes first, not as destructive.
- Tectonic plate readjusting itself after large quake.
- Indonesian Island, Sunda Megathrust is off of.
- Layer of compacted ash.
- Foreign word for big wave.
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- Philosopher from Candide, visited Lisbon after tsunami.
- Zone where tectonic plates rub on one another.
- Coast that was hit hard by tsunami 3/11.
- device that measures power of earthquakes.
- Nuclear plant that melted down due to quake and tsunami.
- Scientific instrument that measures passing tsunamis
- Half of the world's ___ are found in Yellowstone.
- Boundary where plates move away from each other.
- Two plates coming together.
- Low area where eruption had taken place then sunk.
- Its eruption caused Minoan tsunami.
- largest city hit by tsunami 3/11.
- City hit by quake and tsunami in 1755 with 10,000 deaths.
- ______ Megathrust.
- Magnitude of March 2011 Japan Earthquake.
30 Clues: ______ Megathrust. • Layer of compacted ash. • Foreign word for big wave. • Two plates coming together. • 1883 eruption killed 36,000. • Eruption in 1980, killed 57. • One plate moving under another. • Comes first, not as destructive. • Molten rock under crust of Earth. • largest city hit by tsunami 3/11. • Its eruption caused Minoan tsunami. • Comes second, much more destructive. • ...
Plate Tectonics 2015-03-22
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- Sliding by each other
- The process by which the ocean floor sinks into the mantle
- A huge mass of ice and snow that moves slowly over the land
- The center of the Earth
- The process by which sediment settles out of the water or wind that is carrying it and is deposited in a new location
- A German scientist that noticed that the continents were once connected
- It is between the core and the crust
- New crust is being made at the __________
- The outer layer of the Earth
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- Pushing against each other
- A device that scientists use to map the ocean floor
- The super continent
- There are 12 major _____
- The rocks on either side of the fault slip past each other sideways, with little up or down motion
- The process by which water, ice, wind or gravity moves fragments of rock and soil
- A _________ has the same structure as a normal fault, but the blocks move in the opposite direction
- Is the process that allows plates to be in motion
- The physical or chemical process that breaks down rock at the earth's surface
- Tension in Earth's crust pulls rock apart, causing a ________
- Moving away from each other
- A _______ often occur when transform plates slide past each other
21 Clues: The super continent • Sliding by each other • The center of the Earth • There are 12 major _____ • Pushing against each other • Moving away from each other • The outer layer of the Earth • It is between the core and the crust • New crust is being made at the __________ • Is the process that allows plates to be in motion • A device that scientists use to map the ocean floor • ...
Plate Tectonic 2015-05-05
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- This type of stress stretches rock.
- This scale measures the magnitude based on the size of the seismic waves.
- These carry energy from an earthquake, away from the focus, through Earth’s interior, and across the surface.
- This stress can cause rocks to slip.
- A violent movement caused by shifting of plate boundaries.
- What stress pushes rock together.
- This wave vibrates the ground side to side, as well up and down. It’s also called the secondary wave.
- A rift valley forms along this boundary.
- This wave makes the ground surface roll with a wavelike motion.
- This scale measures the damage of the earthquake.
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- This is recording on paper of the shaking motion of the earthquake.
- In this fault the hanging wall moves up the footwall.
- The study of earthquakes.
- This fault has the hanging wall slip down relative to the footwall.
- What boundary makes two continental plates collide forming a mountain range?
- An instrument that records seismic waves.
- What fault has rocks on either side that slip past each other?
- This boundary has to plates that slide past each other.
- When all the the continents were one land mass.
- This seismic wave compresses and expands the ground like an accordion.
20 Clues: The study of earthquakes. • What stress pushes rock together. • This type of stress stretches rock. • This stress can cause rocks to slip. • A rift valley forms along this boundary. • An instrument that records seismic waves. • When all the the continents were one land mass. • This scale measures the damage of the earthquake. • ...
Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle by:Katelyn Roberts 2016-04-10
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- Boundary/ 2 plates slip past each other
- Tectonics/ Pieces of Earth's Lithosphere are in slow, constant motion driven by convection currents
- spreading/ adds new material to the sea floor
- discovered sea-floor spreading
- process by which ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle
- Drift/ Wegeners idea that the continents slowly moved over Earth's surface
- a fold in the rock that bends upwards
- Boundary/ 2 plates come together
- amount of space a rock takes up
- The point on the surface directly above the point at which the earthquake occurs
- a fold in rock that bends downward
- Large area of flat land elevated high above sea level
- The point beneath Earth' surface at which rock under stress breaks and triggers an earthquake
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- force that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks
- Fracture along Earth in which movement occurs
- The shaking and trembling that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface
- measurement of earthquake's strength
- force that acts on the crust to change its volume or shape
- stress that pushes rock in 2 opposite directions
- force within Earth that pulls rock apart; often causing rock to break
- Boundary/ 2 plates move apart
- Super-continent
22 Clues: Super-continent • Boundary/ 2 plates move apart • discovered sea-floor spreading • amount of space a rock takes up • Boundary/ 2 plates come together • a fold in rock that bends downward • measurement of earthquake's strength • a fold in the rock that bends upwards • Boundary/ 2 plates slip past each other • Fracture along Earth in which movement occurs • ...
1st Semester - Review Assignment 2022-12-13
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- Third thing necessary for photosynthesis
- A scientific law describes a________
- water freezes at________
- plates move apart
- dioxide first thing necessary for photosynthesis
- the layer nearest to the earth's surface
- process takes the rock to the inside of the Earth
- second thing necessary for photosynthesis
- is a measure of the amount of water vapor that air is holding compared to the amount needed for saturation at a specific temperature
- is used to measure temperature.
- in which the movement of two blocks of rock along a fault causes an earthquake to occur
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- is a place with cloudy weather
- ridge A vast underwater mountain chain is called a _______
- second that distinguishes atmospheric layers.
- where most fresh water is
- The hypothesis that continents have slowly moved to their current locations is called __________ drift
- When a scientist has tested her hypothesis, the next step in scientific inquiry is to_________
- the highest concentration of ozone
- process where liquid changes into a gas
- is the 3 ways in which the movement of two blocks of rock along a fault cause an earthquake primary to occur the first to reach a seismograph after an earthquake
- second in which the movement of two blocks causes an earthquake to occur
- boundary between cold and warm air masses
- the 7 steps of the scientific method in order_________ _____ ____ ____ ____ ____ _____
23 Clues: plates move apart • water freezes at________ • where most fresh water is • is a place with cloudy weather • is used to measure temperature. • the highest concentration of ozone • A scientific law describes a________ • process where liquid changes into a gas • Third thing necessary for photosynthesis • the layer nearest to the earth's surface • ...
EXPLORING PLATE TECTONICS 2021-01-07
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- scientist who studies earthquakes.
- the name given to the super continent
- a break in the Earth's crust along which two blocks of the crust slide relative to one another
- any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock
- layer between the crust and the core
- the outermost, rigid layer of the Earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle
- the result of a force distributed over an area
- boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move towards each other.
- A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move away from each other.
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- credited with the theory of Continental Drift
- the type of stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object
- soft layer of the mantle
- vibration from underground movement along a fault plane
- boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates slide past each other.
- two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and form mountains
- Crust This is the layer we walk on.
- drift hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface
- zone region where an oceanic plate sinks down into the asthenosphere
- caused by warm fluids rising and cooler fluids sinking.
- Plates Slowly moving pieces of Earth’s crust.
20 Clues: soft layer of the mantle • scientist who studies earthquakes. • Crust This is the layer we walk on. • layer between the crust and the core • the name given to the super continent • credited with the theory of Continental Drift • Plates Slowly moving pieces of Earth’s crust. • the result of a force distributed over an area • ...
EXPLORING PLATE TECTONICS 2021-01-07
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- scientist who studies earthquakes.
- credited with the theory of Continental Drift
- Slowly moving pieces of Earth’s crust.
- layer between the crust and the core
- caused by warm fluids rising and cooler fluids sinking.
- a break in the Earth's crust along which two blocks of the crust slide relative to one another
- the name given to the super continent
- boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates slide past each other.
- vibration from underground movement along a fault plane
- the type of stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object
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- boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move towards each other.
- zone region where an oceanic plate sinks down into the asthenosphere
- the outermost, rigid layer of the Earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle
- soft layer of the mantle
- Crust This is the layer we walk on.
- two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and form mountains
- drift hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface
- any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock
- the result of a force distributed over an area
- A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move away from each other.
20 Clues: soft layer of the mantle • scientist who studies earthquakes. • Crust This is the layer we walk on. • layer between the crust and the core • the name given to the super continent • Slowly moving pieces of Earth’s crust. • credited with the theory of Continental Drift • the result of a force distributed over an area • caused by warm fluids rising and cooler fluids sinking. • ...
Unit 6 Crossword Review 2020-12-16
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- found in the ocean and made of sodium and chlorine
- the continuous movement of water from the Earth to the atmosphere and back to the Earth
- the movement of ocean water due to wind energy
- the change in water level at the shoreline caused by gravity from the moon (and sun)
- type of plate boundary where the mid-ocean ridge is formed
- begins at the shoreline and gently slopes into the ocean
- when heating turns liquid water into water vapor gas
- 97% of the water on Earth
- underwater volcanic mountain
- when water is absorbed into the surface of the Earth
- when cooling changes water vapor gas back into liquid water
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- the movement of ocean water in a pattern that is caused by wind or density
- when water is stored underground
- the flat part of the ocean floor
- 3% of the water on Earth
- when water returns to the Earth are rain, sleet, hail, or snow
- begins at the edge of the shelf and drops down to the flat ocean basin
- can be point source or nonpoint source
- the largest ocean on Earth
- when water moves along the surface of the Earth
- when water vapor is released through plants
21 Clues: 3% of the water on Earth • 97% of the water on Earth • the largest ocean on Earth • underwater volcanic mountain • when water is stored underground • the flat part of the ocean floor • can be point source or nonpoint source • when water vapor is released through plants • the movement of ocean water due to wind energy • when water moves along the surface of the Earth • ...
Plate Tectonics Vocaulary 2022-11-05
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- a mixture of molten and semi-molten rock found beneath the surface of the earth
- a large depression formed when a volcano erupts and collapses
- layer of the earth between the solid inner core and lower mantle
- a large plume of hot mantle material rising from deep within the earth
- anything thrown into the air during a volcanic eruption
- built from particles and blobs of congealed lava ejected from a single vent
- two plates comes together
- the eruption of molten rock (magma) onto the surface of a planet
- comes out of a volcano
- the mostly solid bulk of earth's interior
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- sudden movement of the earth's lithosphere
- the first waves to arrive at a seismograph
- places where plates slide sideways past each other
- a seismic body wave that shakes the ground back and forth
- a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock
- a point at which rays of light, heat, or other radiation meet after being refracted or refracted
- is slid and 90% iron
- two tectonic plates move away from each other
- a dip-slip fault in which the block above the fault has moved downward relative to the block below
- the part of the earth's crust that makes up the seafloor
20 Clues: is slid and 90% iron • comes out of a volcano • two plates comes together • the mostly solid bulk of earth's interior • sudden movement of the earth's lithosphere • the first waves to arrive at a seismograph • two tectonic plates move away from each other • places where plates slide sideways past each other • anything thrown into the air during a volcanic eruption • ...
Volcanoes 2018-03-07
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- hot molten rock that is above ground
- Mount saint Helens is in what state of America?
- small volcanoes made of ash and rocks and the last word is cone.
- a mountain that forms when magma is forced to the earth's surface.
- composite volcanoes are also called what?
- almost entirely magma and lava, looks like a shield
- volcanoes can do this when active, it is when lava comes out of the volcano
- This is a boundary around the pacific plate, takes up 75% of the earth's volcanoes, and is the Ring of _____
- more water and gas can cause a bigger what?
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- ash blocking sunlight and being in the air can make it hard to do what?
- high viscosity and more silica can cause ______ flowing magma. li
- fast flowing clouds of hot ash and volcanic glass rolling down the mountainside. ________ flows.
- ash from volcanoes shoots into the air and blocks this.
- an active composite volcano in America is Mount St. _______
- hot molten rock that is underground
- these volcanoes have explosive eruptions and have outpourings of lava
- technical name for the crust and upper mantle.
- shield volcanoes are found along these boundaries.
- composite volcanoes are found along these boundaries
- lava is just a bunch of hot, molten _______.
20 Clues: hot molten rock that is underground • hot molten rock that is above ground • composite volcanoes are also called what? • more water and gas can cause a bigger what? • lava is just a bunch of hot, molten _______. • technical name for the crust and upper mantle. • Mount saint Helens is in what state of America? • shield volcanoes are found along these boundaries. • ...
Chapters 1-3 2019-10-17
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- What continent looks like it can connect to South America
- A process which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench then back into the mantle
- When the two plates move apart
- Current Force that moves plates in mantle
- Drift Idea that the continents slowly moved over time
- stripes Evidence that the crust comes from the same place and same rate.
- Alfred Wegener used these to give evidence that there was a Pangaea
- What continent has a crack in Earth's crust that you can walk over
- where the ocean floor sinks back into and has the convection currents
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- In mid-1900s, scientists mapped mid-ocean ridges with this device
- The process of subduction and sea- floor spreading can change the shape and blank of the oceans
- Wegener Scientist that thought all the continents were all together at once
- When the two plates move toward each other
- Andreas Fault Famous fault that transform boundaries created
- Sea-floor spreading adds more blank to the ocean floor
- Supercontinent
- When the two plates move past each other
- How many years have the plates been moving slowly
- Mountains Mountains that run across the west coast of South America
- Cracks in the Earth in little pieces
20 Clues: Supercontinent • When the two plates move apart • Cracks in the Earth in little pieces • When the two plates move past each other • When the two plates move toward each other • Current Force that moves plates in mantle • How many years have the plates been moving slowly • Sea-floor spreading adds more blank to the ocean floor • ...
Year in Review. 2023-05-15
Across
- a subatomic particle with -1 charge
- a combination of different atoms to form a new molecule
- the transfer of energy across empty space
- an organism that eats for energy
- a mix of chemicals that have reacted
- the scattering of light reflecting off of an uneven surface
- heat transfer through rising air
- the space between two tectonic plates moving away from each other
- a substance that is not alive
- another word for consumer
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- DNA stands for:
- sciencey word for bursting into flame
- a word to describe when a chemical reaction expels heat
- a mix of chemicals that have not reacted
- another word for producer
- the movement of tectonic plates across the surface of the earth
- a word to describe when a chemical reaction absorbs heat
- the science of the plates of the earth
- a device that measures air pressure
- an organism that makes its own food
- a subatomic particle with 1 charge
- the seemingly random assortment of electrons around the nucleus of an atom
- measurement unit for frequency
- the layers that electrons orbit in
- a subatomic particle with 0 charge
- the transfer of energy between two touching objects
- an organism that eats dead things
27 Clues: DNA stands for: • another word for producer • another word for consumer • a substance that is not alive • measurement unit for frequency • an organism that eats for energy • heat transfer through rising air • an organism that eats dead things • a subatomic particle with 1 charge • the layers that electrons orbit in • a subatomic particle with 0 charge • ...
The Morde Quest: Human Beings As A Whole 2023-11-08
Across
- a young individual maturing into an adult
- a new increase of activity or interest in a particular subject or idea that had been forgotten for some time
- granting others' wants priority over your own
- tending to move toward one point or to approach each other
- being infinitely knowledgeable or appearing to be so
- a follower of a leader, party, or profession
- a person on whose mind a telepathic impulse or message is held to fall
- prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance
- rude and not showing respect, especially to someone older or in a higher position than you
- depending on each other, or consisting of groups that depend on each other
- marked by harmony, regularity, or steady continuity
Down
- possessing wealth or assets in plenty (of a group or of an area)
- extending or lying beyond the limits of ordinary experience
- insufficient funds to settle obligations in the regular course of business
- moving or extending in different directions from a common point
- experiencing severe poverty
- one who authorizes another to act as an agent
- inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility
- one originating or coming from an ancestral stock or source
- a rebel opposing the government or civil authority
20 Clues: experiencing severe poverty • a young individual maturing into an adult • a follower of a leader, party, or profession • granting others' wants priority over your own • one who authorizes another to act as an agent • inclined to or exhibiting assertiveness, hostility • prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance • ...
W.E.D Choice board 2023-12-06
Across
- the layer of Earth extending from Earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle (Metallic)
- scientist that studies earthquakes
- natural land shape or feature
- the strength of an earthquake
- scientist that studies volcanoes
- measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10
- very small pieces of rock
- a break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side
- The process of rock breaking down
- the boundary between two tectonic plates moving AWAY from each other
- Tectonics the theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that are always moving
Down
- the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizon
- a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth’s surface
- the liquid rock below Earth’s crust
- thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
- a shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall
- the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
- the process of moving weathered rock from one place to another
- the thin outer layer of Earth
- the boundary between two tectonic plates that are COLLIDING with each other
20 Clues: very small pieces of rock • natural land shape or feature • the strength of an earthquake • the thin outer layer of Earth • scientist that studies volcanoes • The process of rock breaking down • scientist that studies earthquakes • the liquid rock below Earth’s crust • thick layer of Earth beneath the crust • measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10 • ...
Crossword-McCallister 2023-12-12
Across
- Her outfit was interesting personally I would never where that opposite style
- She was my grandma after all
- He mentioned a friend with a similar story as me and how she coped
- Her medical paper was 50 pages long
- There was a mudslide that blocked that highway!
- The authors word choice really made the page come alive
- As the roads split into 2
- It required a lot of thinking
- Water dripping to slowly fill the bottle
- There was a certain standard expected of us
- Slay!
- The sounds of the words were just so similar
Down
- Somehow these ideas were related
- The water was just so murky and unclear
- Only after I finished the test did I realize I got half the answers wrong
- 'Would you like a cup of tea with biscuits?'
- It was so easy to understand her speech
- They expected us to read a lot of books
- The flower just kept on growing
- She is my enemy
- her new big hair was just so...
- I just looked at the whole picture
- How horrible!
- As the sun rose I could see the mountains
- He would just not shut up about algebra
25 Clues: Slay! • How horrible! • She is my enemy • As the roads split into 2 • She was my grandma after all • It required a lot of thinking • The flower just kept on growing • her new big hair was just so... • Somehow these ideas were related • I just looked at the whole picture • Her medical paper was 50 pages long • The water was just so murky and unclear • ...
Semester 1 Review 2024-01-08
Across
- non-living part of ecosystem
- what will happen if organism cannot adapt
- molten rock underground
- uses sunlight to make their own energy
- more are born than die
- what would happen to the population of rabbits if there were more foxes
- molten rock above ground
- type of adaptation about the way the organism acts
- breaks down dead and decaying matter
- Principle that states younger rocks are on top and older rocks on bottom
- the percentage transferred to each trophic level
- where on tectonic plates mountains, volcanoes, and earthquakes are located
- hot rocks rising then falling as they cool
- living and nonliving parts interacting
- where all energy comes from
- physical and chemical breaking down of rock
- eats other consumers
- eats producers
- warm blooded
Down
- must eat in order to get energy
- living part of ecosystem
- keeping body a constant temperature
- type of adaptation on the body
- plates collide
- using color to blend in
- means all land
- plates move apart
- one plate forced under another
- body part or behavior allowing organism to survive
- eats producers and consumers
- proposed Continental Drift Theory
- cold blooded
- thickest layer
- plates slide past
34 Clues: cold blooded • warm blooded • plates collide • means all land • thickest layer • eats producers • plates move apart • plates slide past • eats other consumers • more are born than die • molten rock underground • using color to blend in • living part of ecosystem • molten rock above ground • where all energy comes from • non-living part of ecosystem • eats producers and consumers • ...
Plate Motion Ainsley Wiers 2024-01-29
Across
- A sudden shaking of Earth’s surfaces
- An extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago
- A natural spring that sends hot water and steam into the air from a hole in the ground
- The ____ core is the innermost part of Earth
- Moving toward the same place
- A long, deep indentation in the ocean floor
- Hot liquid rock below the surface of earth
- A _____ structure is how the particles in a mineral or chemical are arranged
- Moving apart in different directions
Down
- Some people think that South America and _____ used to be connected
- Outermost, rocky layer of Earth
- A layer of Earth’s surface, lying just below the crust and above the inner core
- A _______ rock is a rock that has been changed over time by high pressures and temperatures
- Remains, impression, track, or other evidence of ancient organisms
- A mid-______ ridge is an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart
- The slow pulling apart of land that is caused by plate movement
- _____ are solid earth materials formed from a mixture of minerals and sometimes other materials
- Some people believe that the ______ fit together like puzzle pieces
- How often or fast something happens
- Hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth
20 Clues: Moving toward the same place • Outermost, rocky layer of Earth • How often or fast something happens • A sudden shaking of Earth’s surfaces • Moving apart in different directions • Hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth • Hot liquid rock below the surface of earth • A long, deep indentation in the ocean floor • The ____ core is the innermost part of Earth • ...
science crossword puzzle 2024-03-11
Across
- the study of the earth is called
- an instrument used to measure wind speed and direction
- the ability of a substance to allow another substance to pass through it
- deals with the study of water as it occurs on, over , under the earths surface
- A chain of process that produces and transforms the rock type in earths crust
- when the moon passes between the sun and earth
- the measurements of distance north and south of the equator
- when plates move towards each other and collide
- a thin white cloud
- the study of everything in the universe beyond Earth's atmosphere
- where two plates move away from each other
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- a way heat travels
- the measure of how wet the air is
- a natural process that results from accumulation of nutrients in lakes or other bodies of water
- the lowest layer of the Earth's atmosphere
- change - long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns
- the structure of the earth is divided into 4 major components
- A measure of spaces in a material, liquid go through it if it has porosity
- occurs when the moon is on the same side of earth as the sun
- how many plate boundaries are there
20 Clues: a way heat travels • a thin white cloud • the study of the earth is called • the measure of how wet the air is • how many plate boundaries are there • the lowest layer of the Earth's atmosphere • where two plates move away from each other • when the moon passes between the sun and earth • when plates move towards each other and collide • ...
Earth Unit 4 Vocab 2024-02-16
Across
- Type of boundary where plates collide.
- AW's supercontinent.
- Once of the features formed by subduction.
- When the ground acts like a liquid during an earthquake.
- An example of this boundary is the San Andreas fault in California.
- Where the damage of an earthquake is the greatest.
- Types of currents in the mantle that cause plates to move.
- Using sound to make maps of regions of the ocean floor.
- Himalayas are these type of mountains.
- Volcanic eject that can circle the globe and cause temperatures to drop.
- Where earthquake movement actually begins.
- Fastest of the seismic waves.
- Type of seismic waves that do the most damage.
Down
- Type of boundary where plates are pulling apart.
- Author of Continental Drift.
- Series of volcanoes in the ocean formed from the collision of two oceanic plates.
- When one plate slides under another.
- Yellowstone is an example of this volcanic formation.
- The measurement of how much energy is released during an earthquake.
- Theory that describes how Earth's crust is divided and moving.
- Tallest of the types of volcanoes. Often have the most violent eruptions.
- Volcanic mountains formed by the collision of an oceanic plate with a continental plate.
- Author of Sea-floor Spreading
- Volcanic mudflow.
- Largest of the types of volcanoes.
25 Clues: Volcanic mudflow. • AW's supercontinent. • Author of Continental Drift. • Author of Sea-floor Spreading • Fastest of the seismic waves. • Largest of the types of volcanoes. • When one plate slides under another. • Type of boundary where plates collide. • Himalayas are these type of mountains. • Once of the features formed by subduction. • ...
Plate Motions: Listening to Earth 2023-10-25
Across
- a measure of how often or fast something happens
- formed by one plate sinking under another
- any of the many processes in which gas, lava, and ash is pushed out on the surface of Earth
- the place where two plates meet
- powerful microphones that are built to travel deep underwater
- the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates
- moving apart in different directions
- a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
- something we observe to be similar over and over again
- moving toward the same place
Down
- places where two plates are moving away from each other
- small earthquakes that occur before big earthquakes
- one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth's outer layer
- the sudden pushing out of things, such as lava from a volcano
- a scientist who studies sound in the ocean
- a sudden shaking of the Earth's surface
- Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water
- an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart
- an underwater canyon that is part of the Mariana trench
- a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
21 Clues: moving toward the same place • the place where two plates meet • moving apart in different directions • a sudden shaking of the Earth's surface • formed by one plate sinking under another • a scientist who studies sound in the ocean • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration • a measure of how often or fast something happens • ...
Evolution Unit Not-Test 2024-04-11
Across
- species experience changes in characteristics slowly and incrementally
- First step of natural selection - Every population can produce more offspring than can survive
- First released lots of oxygen into the atmosphere
- Classification of animals ranging from kingdom to species
- favors one extreme of a trait
- Inherited traits that increase the chance of survival
- Evolutionairy relationships among organisms, shows how much time has passed
- A structure left over from evolution that no longer serves a purpose
- favors both extremes of a trait
- Proposed theory of descent with modification
Down
- _______ Selection passes on traits beneficial to the environment to be passed
- _________ isolation causes speciation as a result of geographic barriers
- ___________ isolation is caused by differences in behavior
- Genetic _____ - individuals leave a population resulting in certain alles being favored
- Believed that Complex organisms descend from less complex organisms
- _______ structures - structures inherited from similar ancestors but used differently
- proposed theory of evolution
- _____ evolution - large scale evolution over a long time period
- Group of organisms including its ancestor and all descendants
- ________ evolution - common ancestry but different adaptations due to natural selection
- Organizes organisms based off of shared characteristics
- one species is the ancestor of two or more species later in time
- favors average trait
- __________ isolation is caused by breeding at different times/seasons
24 Clues: favors average trait • proposed theory of evolution • favors one extreme of a trait • favors both extremes of a trait • Proposed theory of descent with modification • First released lots of oxygen into the atmosphere • Inherited traits that increase the chance of survival • Organizes organisms based off of shared characteristics • ...
Earth's Structure Review 2024-05-22
Across
- processes by which rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away
- a type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface
- contains living things
- the breaking down of rocks and other materials on the Earth's surface
- one plate going under another plate
- a rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust
- consists of water in any of its forms
- plates slide past each other
- contains the densest part of Earth (rock, soil, sediment)
Down
- the soft layer of the mantleon which the lithosphere floats
- plated divide or separate
- contains the relatively thin layer of gases that form Earth's outermost layer
- the thin and solid outermostlayer of the Earth above the mantle
- tectonic pate that lies under a continent
- the central part of the earth below the mantle
- the layer of hot, solid material between Earth's crust and core
- a type of rock that forms when particles from other rocks are pressed and cemented together
- a type of rock that forms from an existing rock that is changed by heat or pressure
- plates move toward each other
- a wave that travels along a surface
20 Clues: contains living things • plated divide or separate • plates slide past each other • plates move toward each other • one plate going under another plate • a wave that travels along a surface • consists of water in any of its forms • tectonic pate that lies under a continent • the central part of the earth below the mantle • ...
PSY102 Module 6: Thinking & Intellligence 2024-06-21
Across
- categories or groupings of linguistic information, images, ideas, or memories, such as life experiences.
- clusters of related concepts
- the field of psychology dedicated to examining how people think
- problem-solving strategy in which multiple solutions are attempted until the correct one is found
- mental shortcut that saves time when solving a problem
- French psychologist who helped to develop intelligence testing.
- problem-solving formula that provides you with step-by-step instructions used to achieve a desired outcome
- communication system that involves using words and systematic rules to organize those words to transmit information from one individual to another.
Down
- generated a triarchic theory of intelligence.
- thinking, including perception, learning, problem solving, judgment, and memory
- a plan of action used to find a solution.
- learning disability that causes difficulty in learning or comprehending mathematics
- thinking “outside the box”
- set of rules that are used to convey meaning through the use of a lexicon
- a psychologist who developed an IQ test in the United States n 1939.
- Multiple Intelligences Theory was developed by ____
- stands for intelligence quotient
- the ability to generate, create, or discover new ideas, solutions, and possibilities.
- the words of a given language
- learning disability that causes extreme difficulty in writing legibly
20 Clues: thinking “outside the box” • clusters of related concepts • the words of a given language • stands for intelligence quotient • a plan of action used to find a solution. • generated a triarchic theory of intelligence. • Multiple Intelligences Theory was developed by ____ • mental shortcut that saves time when solving a problem • ...
AP Psych Unit 5 2024-04-26
Across
- Intelligence that depends on reasoning.
- A bias that gives you a tendency to look for information that only confirms your ideas.
- Encoding using the meaning of words
- Type of processing where the brain process many functions simultaneously
- Thinking that increases the number of solutions for a problem
- Processing of words based on structure and appearance
- Memory of specific events
- When you stick to your initial conceptions after it has been proven wrong.
- Thinking that narrows down solutions to find the best solution for a problem
- Memory that doesn't require conscious recollection
Down
- Intelligence that depends on previous knowledge
- Processing information into the memory system
- Memory aids using the sound of words
- Amnesia attributing to the wrong source an event we have heard, heard about, read about, or imagined.
- Processing that requires attention and conscious effort.
- Amnesia that affects the ability toto retrieve information from one's past
- Impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area
- Processing of words that uses definitions and meaning.
- Amnesia that affects the ability to form new memories
- Memory of audio stiumuli
- Memory of facts and experiences
- Ehen previously stored memories can change after being recalled before being stored again.
22 Clues: Memory of audio stiumuli • Memory of specific events • Memory of facts and experiences • Encoding using the meaning of words • Memory aids using the sound of words • Intelligence that depends on reasoning. • Processing information into the memory system • Intelligence that depends on previous knowledge • Memory that doesn't require conscious recollection • ...
Plate motion 2024-10-22
Across
- a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground
- the slow pulling apart of land that is caused by plate movement
- to examine in detail for a purpose
- A large section of hard solid rock that make up earths outer layer
- hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth
- any of the many processes in which lava gas and ash are pushed out on the surface of earth
- a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune
- when do water mountain range formed when two plates move apart
- moving toward the same plate
- observed to be over and over again
Down
- The layer of soft, solid rock underneath earths plates
- the outside or top layer of something
- moving apart in different directions
- a shaking of earths surface
- made of hard solid rock
- the sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano
- evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints
- The place where two plates meet
- a diagram that shows what inside of something looks like
- A long deep indentation in the ocean floor
20 Clues: made of hard solid rock • a shaking of earths surface • moving toward the same plate • The place where two plates meet • to examine in detail for a purpose • observed to be over and over again • moving apart in different directions • the outside or top layer of something • hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth • A long deep indentation in the ocean floor • ...
Plate motion 2024-10-22
Across
- The place where two plates meet
- a diagram that shows what inside of something looks like
- the sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano
- a shaking of earths surface
- to examine in detail for a purpose
- A long deep indentation in the ocean floor
- made of hard solid rock
- hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth
- moving toward the same plate
- evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints
- the outside or top layer of something
- moving apart in different directions
- a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground
Down
- a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune
- when do water mountain range formed when two plates move apart
- observed to be over and over again
- the slow pulling apart of land that is caused by plate movement
- A large section of hard solid rock that make up earths outer layer
- The layer of soft, solid rock underneath earths plates
- any of the many processes in which lava gas and ash are pushed out on the surface of earth
20 Clues: made of hard solid rock • a shaking of earths surface • moving toward the same plate • The place where two plates meet • observed to be over and over again • to examine in detail for a purpose • moving apart in different directions • the outside or top layer of something • A long deep indentation in the ocean floor • hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth • ...
Plate tectonics 2024-10-25
Across
- these often happen at convergent boundaries when two plates colide
- The name of the puzzle
- an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see
- our teacher
- when two plates slide next to each other
- Underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart
- when two plates are moving apart from each other
- the outside or top layer of something
- Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water
Down
- The person who invented the theory of plate tectonics
- any of the many processes (such as eruptions and lava flows) in which gas, lava, and ash are pushed out on the surface of Earth
- When two plates move together and one goes under the other
- a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand
- these happen often at a divergent boundary when the mantle is coming up between two plates
- something we observe to be similar over and over again
- There are 12 on earth
- the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates
- The planet we live on
- a set of interacting parts forming a complex whole
- the layer under the land and ocean
20 Clues: our teacher • There are 12 on earth • The planet we live on • The name of the puzzle • the layer under the land and ocean • the outside or top layer of something • when two plates slide next to each other • when two plates are moving apart from each other • a set of interacting parts forming a complex whole • The person who invented the theory of plate tectonics • ...
Thinking and Intelligence: Cognition, Language, Creativity and Problem Solving 2024-10-07
Across
- thinking, knowing, remembering, communicating
- grammar rules for putting words in correct order
- the smallest unit that carries meaning in a language
- period between 2-3 years to develop language
- simple, quick way to make judgements or solve a problem
- a logical, methodical rule or step-by-step procedure that will solve a problem
- effortless, immediate, automatic feeling or thought
- a sudden realization of a problem's solution
- the smallest unit of sound in a language
- mental image or best example of categories
- "I holded my mommy's hand", or "The mouses can't escape"
- a type of schema that involves sequence
- 4 months to 1 year
Down
- a language's set of rules for deriving meaning from sounds
- thinking that searches for multiple possible answers to a question
- functional ____________
- thinking that points toward one solution
- a system of rules in a language that enables us to communicate and understand others
- one thing that may be shaped through language
- the ability to produce new ideas
- a mental framework
- language acquisition device abbreviation
- allows us to communicate and preserve thoughts, ideas, feelings and experiences
- proposed children possess the capacity to learn and produce speech
- speech developed around age 3
- processing information to solve problems, reason, and make judgements and decisions
26 Clues: a mental framework • 4 months to 1 year • functional ____________ • speech developed around age 3 • the ability to produce new ideas • a type of schema that involves sequence • thinking that points toward one solution • language acquisition device abbreviation • the smallest unit of sound in a language • mental image or best example of categories • ...
MI CASA ES TU CROSSA 2024-12-04
Across
- where's ananya?
- the bestest boy in the whole world
- ako ______ gets you to fall for her
- allegedly has the best ranch ever
- confuses, perplexes, etc... or a marker of varsh's independent accomplishment
- mimi thinks this frontman is really hot
- 2 years 2day (december 4)
- "i was respecting her religion"
- no ananya we're not watching it
- victim of compliment circle
- northeastern's hottest dance troupe
- he's friend shaped
- im scared i can't touch the bottom
- vamanos, all aboard!
- who are all of these people in bella and varsh's house?
- handshake victim
Down
- more bread, please
- georgia, where is that jacket from?
- sweet and sour fun for georgia
- mi casa predecessor
- *ako laughing at this until she can't breathe*
- and she was wearing these... fugly shoes
- plant daddy cult
- official rugby formation
- vodka from the arctic waters
- sarah translation of "i'm so stressed right now"
- text you get from varsh at least 4 times a day
- sweet overly attached baby
- bummus
- spring break streetside life source
- who up befriending they clone
- where it all began
- some call it home, some call it a maggie rogers song
- iconic maternal imessage sticker
- IV dining hall noodle lunch day
35 Clues: bummus • where's ananya? • plant daddy cult • handshake victim • more bread, please • he's friend shaped • where it all began • mi casa predecessor • vamanos, all aboard! • official rugby formation • 2 years 2day (december 4) • sweet overly attached baby • victim of compliment circle • vodka from the arctic waters • who up befriending they clone • sweet and sour fun for georgia • ...
Unit 3 Science 2024-12-19
Across
- a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth’s surface
- is the molten rock that erupts from the volcano along with ash and hot gases
- the thin outer layer of Earth
- thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
- the process of rock breaking apart
- the strength of an earthquake
- the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
- scientist that studies earthquakes
- very small pieces of rock
- the process of moving weathered rock from one place to anotherDdeposition the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water
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- a break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side
- the boundary between two tectonic plates that are COLLIDING with each other
- scientist that studies volcanoes
- the liquid rock below Earth’s crust
- natural land shape or feature
- the boundary between two tectonic plates moving AWAY from each other
- the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water
- the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
- the layer of Earth extending from Earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle
- a shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall
20 Clues: very small pieces of rock • the thin outer layer of Earth • natural land shape or feature • the strength of an earthquake • scientist that studies volcanoes • the process of rock breaking apart • scientist that studies earthquakes • the liquid rock below Earth’s crust • thick layer of Earth beneath the crust • the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water • ...
Tectonic plates 2024-12-18
Across
- a scientist that studies rock and earth's crust
- The name of the scientist that developed the theory of continental drift
- the theory that the continents drift apart
- when 2 plates move away from each other
- a natural force on earth that holds plates together
- when plates move toward each other
- the 2nd layer of earth
- the remains of a prehistoric orgainsum that were presurved
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- a break in the rock of earth's crust or mantle
- the theory that the oldest rock is at the bottom and youngest on the top
- when 2 plates slip past each other
- a natural formation formed at convergent boundaries
- the force that acts on rock to change it's shape or volume
- a molten mixture of rock forming substances from the mantle
- a structure that forms in earth's crust when magma reaches the earth's surface
- An area of the mantle where hot rock rises upward
- Most if not all the continent where conected and made a super continect
- Earth's surface is broken up into more than a dozen distance plates
- The type of thermal energy transfer that takes place in earth mantle
- The shaking and trembling of a plate after it releases stress
20 Clues: the 2nd layer of earth • when 2 plates slip past each other • when plates move toward each other • when 2 plates move away from each other • the theory that the continents drift apart • a break in the rock of earth's crust or mantle • a scientist that studies rock and earth's crust • An area of the mantle where hot rock rises upward • ...
Unit 2 Crossword - Science 7 2025-01-31
Across
- what broken down pieces of rock get called
- assumption that all processes on Earth developed its surface regularly and constantly
- type of weathering done by chemical processes
- the name of the man who came up with continental drift
- the study of the Earth
- type of rock that went through change
- type of weathering done by physical force
- type of igneous rock formed from lava cooling
- rock formed from volcanic activity
- theory that all movement of Earth's crust is driven by convection in the mantle
- tool for measuring earthquakes
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- plate boundary where plates slide past each other
- process of breaking up rock
- outermost layer of Earth
- when bits of crust get scraped and chipped off during plate movement
- molten rock underground
- hypothesis that all of Earth's land masses are moving
- plate boundary where plates collide
- what happens to a rock when extreme heat and pressure deforms it
- belief that random disasters developed Earth's surface
- plate boundary where plates move apart
- layer of Earth just underneath the lithosphere made up of molten rock
- when broken down rock gets moved by water
- type of rock that is made up of other rocks
- type of igneous rock formed from magma cooling
- molten rock above ground
26 Clues: the study of the Earth • molten rock underground • outermost layer of Earth • molten rock above ground • process of breaking up rock • tool for measuring earthquakes • rock formed from volcanic activity • plate boundary where plates collide • type of rock that went through change • plate boundary where plates move apart • type of weathering done by physical force • ...
Earth Science - Tier 1 2025-05-22
Across
- The supercontinent Wegener theorised once existed
- Magma that has erupted onto the surface
- Underwater mountain range formed by diverging plates
- Igneous rock that cools quickly above the surface
- Plate boundary where plates collide
- Type of current that causes the tectonic plates to move
- Evidence for continental drift found on different continents
- The spreading of this provides evidence for plate movement
- Igneous rock that cools slowly beneath the surface
- Process that breaks down rocks and moves sediments
- Rock formed from cooled magma or lava
- Process that presses sediments together
- Scientist who proposed seafloor spreading
- Earth's outermost solid layer
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- Scientist who proposed continental drift
- Process where one plate sinks beneath another
- The thick layer of hot rock beneath the crust
- Earth's innermost layer, made mostly of iron and nickel
- Rock formed from layers of sediment
- Deep areas in the ocean caused by subduction
- Mountain that forms when magma reaches the surface
- Rock changed by heat and pressure
- Type of plates that move and cause earthquakes and volcanoes
- Plate boundary where plates move apart
- Plate boundary where plates slide past each other
- Volcanic region fed by mantle plumes, not at a plate boundary
26 Clues: Earth's outermost solid layer • Rock changed by heat and pressure • Rock formed from layers of sediment • Plate boundary where plates collide • Rock formed from cooled magma or lava • Plate boundary where plates move apart • Magma that has erupted onto the surface • Process that presses sediments together • Scientist who proposed continental drift • ...
CGC1W Review Crossword 2025-06-11
Across
- Capital of New Brunswick
- Settlement pattern typical along coastlines or highways
- Plate movement common along mid-ocean ridges
- The most sustainable method of harvesting wood
- The landform region with the largest population
- BOOM The dramatic increase in the birth rate after World War II
- The climate factor that would have the greatest impact on Iqaluit, NU
- Countries with the highest standard of living
- Characteristics of a community that contribute to quality of life
- The climate factor that would have the greatest impact on Calgary, AB
- LOAD Group that is not working, which includes children 14 and younger, and seniors 65 and over
- Physical process responsible for the creation of the Great Lakes
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- The process of people moving from rural to urban areas
- Acronym for the requirements of a map
- The study of population
- Improving the quality of life while living protecting the environment
- A person moving out of a country
- The geographic perspective that looks at impacts on the land, including plants and animals
- Anything that is found useful to humans
- The ocean off the coasts of the Maritime provinces
- When immigrating, these factors make a particular country seem 'attractive'
- The province/territory west of the Northwest Territories
22 Clues: The study of population • Capital of New Brunswick • A person moving out of a country • Acronym for the requirements of a map • Anything that is found useful to humans • Plate movement common along mid-ocean ridges • Countries with the highest standard of living • The most sustainable method of harvesting wood • The landform region with the largest population • ...
History and Science Reviw 2025-10-09
Across
- Main Author of the Declaration of Independence.
- prediction part of an experiment
- The country the Red Coats fought for and we against.
- cooled rocky layer of the Earth
- melted rock on the Earth's surface
- Because of the French and Indian War England fell into?
- Commanding General of the Continental Army.
- Final battle of the Revolutionary war
- Spy who helped the colonist win the war.
- English king during the Revolutionary War
- melted rock deep inside the earth
- figurative language where you compare using like or as
- tectonic plate boundaries that create mountains
- Our first ever ally during the war.
- tectonic plate boundaries that create new crust
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- tectonic plates boundaries that cause earthquakes
- figurative language that are exaggeration
- tectonic plate boundaries where one moves under the other.
- height of a wave of energy
- figurative language with the same first sound
- figurative language where the sound looks like the word
- Earthquakes and volcanoes happen along the ?? the tectonic plates.
- melted rock layer of the Earth
- Low point of a wave
- Said Give me liberty or give me death!
- distance between two crests or troughs
- High point of a wave
- The treaty of ?? was the official end of the war.
28 Clues: Low point of a wave • High point of a wave • height of a wave of energy • melted rock layer of the Earth • cooled rocky layer of the Earth • prediction part of an experiment • melted rock deep inside the earth • melted rock on the Earth's surface • Our first ever ally during the war. • Final battle of the Revolutionary war • Said Give me liberty or give me death! • ...
3rd Grade 2025-09-24
Across
- A place where people or vehicles regularly stop or work.
- Extremely dirty.
- A painful feeling from guilt or embarrassment.
- Very large in size or amount.
- A good chance to do something.
- To travel regularly between home and work or school.
- Poorly built or about to fall apart.
- General agreement among a group.
- Dark, serious, or gloomy.
- Moving in different directions; not the same.
- A loss of electricity; a period of unconsciousness.
- Left behind and no longer used.
- A happy discovery made by chance.
- out To stop paying attention.
- A green, fertile place in a desert with water.
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- up Very upset, nervous, or excited.
- Broken down or in very poor condition.
- In a thoughtful or reflective way.
- To interrupt by saying something suddenly.
- A person who owns or works on a ranch.
- No longer fresh.
- Acknowledgment or praise for something.
- Full of noisy energy and excitement.
- Something that could happen.
- Importance or special meaning.
- So amazed that you can’t look away.
- A slow way of speaking with stretched-out vowels.
- A set of tools or equipment for a task.
- A very short amount of time.
- After some time; in the end.
30 Clues: Extremely dirty. • No longer fresh. • Dark, serious, or gloomy. • Something that could happen. • A very short amount of time. • After some time; in the end. • Very large in size or amount. • out To stop paying attention. • A good chance to do something. • Importance or special meaning. • Left behind and no longer used. • General agreement among a group. • ...
CROSSWORD 2025-11-22
Across
- A result that naturally follows from something
- the practice of pretending on social media to be someone different, in order to trick or attract another person
- Developing in different directions; differing
- (people) having a good relationship because they have similar ideas, interests, etc.
- a period when people are no longer friendly or connected to each other
- Agreement or harmony between things
- a friendly relationship between people who work together or do the same job
- Fly or move around in a circle; When someone stops responding to your messages but still engages with you on social media
Down
- giving someone just enough attention to keep them interested, without committing
- Disagreement or conflict
- the quality of saying what you think openly and honestly
- Full of energy, enthusiasm, and excitement
- starting to exist; newly formed or noticed
- Insisting that your beliefs are unquestionably true
- a loud argument or disagreement
- a small group of people who spend their time together and do not allow others to join them
- a liking for someone/something
- a feeling of friendship and trust among people who work or spend a lot of time together
- Too ready to believe things; easily fooled
- A guess or opinion based on incomplete information
20 Clues: Disagreement or conflict • a liking for someone/something • a loud argument or disagreement • Agreement or harmony between things • Full of energy, enthusiasm, and excitement • starting to exist; newly formed or noticed • Too ready to believe things; easily fooled • Developing in different directions; differing • A result that naturally follows from something • ...
unit 3 vocab 2025-12-17
Across
- a shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall
- the strength of an earthquake
- the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water
- the boundary between two tectonic plates that are COLLIDING with each other
- scientist that studies earthquakes
- the process of rock breaking apart
- the layer of Earth extending from Earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle (Metallic)
- a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth’s surface
- thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
- natural land shape or feature
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- Scale measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10
- the liquid rock below Earth’s crust
- very small pieces of rock
- Tectonics the theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that are always moving
- the process of moving weathered rock from one place to another
- the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
- the boundary between two tectonic plates moving AWAY from each other
- the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
- the thin outer layer of Earth
- a break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side
20 Clues: very small pieces of rock • the strength of an earthquake • the thin outer layer of Earth • natural land shape or feature • scientist that studies earthquakes • the process of rock breaking apart • the liquid rock below Earth’s crust • thick layer of Earth beneath the crust • the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water • ...
Science Vocabulary 2023-08-31
Across
- ridge: An undersea mountain range where new ocean floor is produced created by a divergent plate boundary.
- field: The area of magnetic force around a magnet.
- Wegner: A German scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift.
- drift: Sections of the earth's crust that moves due to convection currents.
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- spreading: The process that creates new sea floor as plates move away from each other at the mid-ocean ridge.
- A supercontinent containing all of earths land that existed about 225 million years ago.
- The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past
- Hess: proposed the theory of mid-ocean ridge.
8 Clues: Hess: proposed the theory of mid-ocean ridge. • field: The area of magnetic force around a magnet. • The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past • Wegner: A German scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift. • drift: Sections of the earth's crust that moves due to convection currents. • ...
Earth features 2017-10-17
Across
- the place where sea floor spreading starts
- when there is a divergent boundary on land it creates these
- the layer of Earth just below the crust
- when two plates slide past each other
- the object that the continents sit on and move due to the convection current in the mantle
- when two plates collide
- animal or plant remains that have been preserved in rock
- the layer of Earth that we live on
- a tool that sends sound waves out that hit a surface and bounces back to tell the distance an object is away
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- the supercontinent that formed about 300 million years and split apart about 200 million years ago
- the rock that the continents are made of
- the theory the the continents were once connected and moved apart
- when two plates move away from each other
- the scientist that theorised that the continents fit together and have since split apart
- new material is added to the sea floor
- the result of a transform boundary
- where subduction takes place
- the warmest and most pressurized layer of Earth
- the material that the ocean floor is made of
- where the sea floor begins to sink back into the mantle
20 Clues: when two plates collide • where subduction takes place • the result of a transform boundary • the layer of Earth that we live on • when two plates slide past each other • new material is added to the sea floor • the layer of Earth just below the crust • the rock that the continents are made of • when two plates move away from each other • ...
Unit20-3 2018-03-11
Across
- to express oneself as unwilling to accept
- Displacement/Time taken
- to detect with the eyes
- one that receives and contains something
- recovery or relief from a disease
- a discussion marked especially by the expression of opposing views
- Mg-24.31
- to devote to the worship of a divine being
- deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand : not plentiful or abundant
- an expression of opinion or judgment
- to remain for a time
- forming or consisting of a large mass
- 棉花
- to sell in small quantities directly to the ultimate consumer
- of or relating to principles of right and wrong in behavior
- marked by keen caution, cunning, and watchfulness especially in detecting and escaping danger
Down
- UV
- something that poisons the mind or soul
- an act or the power of moving from place to place
- having pleasing qualities or properties
- moving or extending in different directions from a common point
- a lowercase letter
- marked by forceful and fluent expression
- a useful tool or implement
- a thin strip or fragment
- inflexibly set in opinion
- the time, place, and circumstances in which something occurs or develops
- 幼虫
- a group of soldiers
- the imposition or collection of an assessment
30 Clues: UV • 幼虫 • 棉花 • Mg-24.31 • a lowercase letter • a group of soldiers • to remain for a time • Displacement/Time taken • to detect with the eyes • a thin strip or fragment • inflexibly set in opinion • a useful tool or implement • recovery or relief from a disease • an expression of opinion or judgment • forming or consisting of a large mass • something that poisons the mind or soul • ...
Year 9 Earth Science 2018-09-09
Across
- The difference in power between a size 5 and size 6 earthquake
- The wearing away of rock
- Igneous rock with clearly visible crystals
- Acting principal of Reservoir High School
- A single area of magma that can push through a plate
- A type of volcanic rock
- The thinnest layer of the Earth
- Rock formed by heat and pressure
- The layer where tectonic plates are found
- Lava underground
- This crust is denser
- The point on the surface of the Earth directly above an earthquake
- This crust is thicker
- Divergent plates can cause this
- An element which is not commonly found in the Earth's crust
- The point underground where an earthquake forms
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- A break between different areas of rock where movement has occured
- Dwayne Johnson
- Main component of the Earth's core
- Volcanic rock
- The violent sudden shaking of the ground
- The process where oceanic crust sinks below continental crust
- The study of the Earth
- The instrument used to measure earthquakes
- Where two plates meet
- An earthquake wave given the symbol P
- Scale used to measure earthquake intensity
- The type of boundary where plates scrape past one another
- The super-continent proposed by Wegener
- The best science teacher at Reservoir High School
30 Clues: Volcanic rock • Dwayne Johnson • Lava underground • This crust is denser • Where two plates meet • This crust is thicker • The study of the Earth • A type of volcanic rock • The wearing away of rock • The thinnest layer of the Earth • Divergent plates can cause this • Rock formed by heat and pressure • Main component of the Earth's core • An earthquake wave given the symbol P • ...
Pre-Calulus Crossword 2018-05-20
Across
- sequence, set of numbers that has no end
- formula, uses the term before to make the next term
- series, there is a limit to the series
- notation, a symbol used to express a sequence and its pattern
- induction, a method of proving mathematical results based on mathematical induction
- an order which the numbers follow the same pattern
- test, test to see if a series is converging or diverging
- sequence, numbers in an order that fall under a multiplication rule
- geometry, geometry of fractals
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- test, a test to see if a series is convergent
- series, there is no limit to the series
- series, the sum of nth numbers in a arithmetic sequence
- series, series with an exponent rule
- sequence, sequence where every number is the sum of the two numbers before
- Triangle, triangle where the two above numbers add together to become a bottom number
- series, a series of that has a sine or cosine pattern
- a number or variable
- of summation, adding things up together
- partial sum, the sum of a part of a sequence
- when a series approaches a number but never touches it
- Theorem, formula to expand a binomial when raised to a power
- ratio, ratio of numbers in a geometric sequence
- difference, difference of numbers in an arithmetic sequence
23 Clues: a number or variable • geometry, geometry of fractals • series, series with an exponent rule • series, there is a limit to the series • series, there is no limit to the series • of summation, adding things up together • sequence, set of numbers that has no end • partial sum, the sum of a part of a sequence • test, a test to see if a series is convergent • ...
Changing Earth 2012-12-04
Across
- occurs where plates push together
- Drift a hypothesis proposed by Alfred Wegener
- a place where heated rock rises in plumes, or in thin columns, from the mantle
- a thin layer of cool rock
- a fracture, or break in earth's lithosphere,along which blocks of rock move past each other
- huge under water mountain ranges
- a layer of hotter, softer rock in the upper mantle
- the switch in direction where the north pole becomes the south pole and south pole becomes the north pole
- a layer of liquid metals that surrounds the inner core
Down
- earth's crust and the very top of the mantle together
- where ridges continue to widen, a gap forms called this
- the shaking of the ground caused by the sudden movement of large blocks of rock along a fault
- a motion that transfers heat energy in a material
- occurs where plates scrape past each other
- occurs where plates move apart
- the force exerted when an object presses on, pulls on, or pushes against another object
- earth's thickest layer
- a ball of hot solid metals
- Plates lithosphere is broken into many large and small slabs of rock
- energy transfer by the movement of a material
20 Clues: earth's thickest layer • a thin layer of cool rock • a ball of hot solid metals • occurs where plates move apart • huge under water mountain ranges • occurs where plates push together • occurs where plates scrape past each other • Drift a hypothesis proposed by Alfred Wegener • energy transfer by the movement of a material • a motion that transfers heat energy in a material • ...
Vocabulary Unit 8 2013-03-05
Across
- an agent, substitute; a written permission allowing one person to act in another's place
- to cause anger, irritation, or bitterness
- a person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials; an animal that feeds on refuse or dead bodies
- tireless, continuing with vigor
- to pass through or gain entrance to gradually or stealthily
- thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren
- to make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out
- to limit, be sparing or frugal; a limit or restriction; a fixed share of work or duty; a period of activity
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- to be use or benefit to; make use of; to take advantage of; to profit or benefit; use, benefit, or value
- puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic
- capable of being grasped by the senses or mind
- clothes, apparel, garb; to dress, adorn, or bedeck
- a very close friend, pal, chum, buddy
- to declare publicly or officially
- going in different directions; different from each other; departing from convention, deviant
- hatred, ill-will
- very earnest, emotional, passionate; extremely hot
- self-controlled, not showing feeling in response to pleasure or pain
- to plunge straight down; a weight fastened to a line
- to join at one end or to be next to; to support, prop up
20 Clues: hatred, ill-will • tireless, continuing with vigor • to declare publicly or officially • puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic • a very close friend, pal, chum, buddy • to cause anger, irritation, or bitterness • thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren • capable of being grasped by the senses or mind • clothes, apparel, garb; to dress, adorn, or bedeck • ...
Plate Tectonics 2013-03-06
Across
- the name of the single landmass that broke apart 225million years ago
- a dense sphere of solid iron and nickel in the center of the Earth (2wrds)
- amount of force pushing on an area
- a deep valley that forms where 2 plates move away from each other
- a well tested concept that explains a wide range of observations
- where the oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep ocean trench
- a boundary where 2 plates move toward each other
- a soft layer which floats on the lithosphere
- a system that determines the distance of an object under water.
- the layer of rock that forms Earths outer core
- a boundary where 2 plates slide past each other
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- the hypothesis that the continents slowly moved across the Earth’s surface
- the layer of hot solid material between the core and crust
- a ridge layer made up in the upper most part of the mantle
- a break in the lithosphere
- the movement of a fluid caused by difference in temperature (2wrds)
- a vibration that travels through Earth carrying energy released in an earthquake (2 wds)
- a layer of molten iron and nickel(2wrds0
- the amount of mass in a given space
- a boundary that moves away from each other
20 Clues: a break in the lithosphere • amount of force pushing on an area • the amount of mass in a given space • a layer of molten iron and nickel(2wrds0 • a boundary that moves away from each other • a soft layer which floats on the lithosphere • the layer of rock that forms Earths outer core • a boundary where 2 plates slide past each other • ...
Plate Tectonics 2013-03-06
Across
- a vibration that travels through Earth carrying energy released in an earthquake (2 wds)
- a mountain chain under water
- the hypothesis that the continents slowly moved across the Earth’s surface
- a layer of molten iron and nickel(2wrds0
- a well tested concept that explains a wide range of observations
- amount of force pushing on an area
- where the oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep ocean trench
- a boundary where 2 plates slide past each other
- a break in the lithosphere
- a boundary that moves away from each other
Down
- the name of the single landmass that broke apart 225million years ago
- the movement of a fluid caused by difference in temperature (2wrds)
- the layer of hot solid material between the core and crust
- a deep valley that forms where 2 plates move away from each other
- the layer of rock that forms Earths outer core
- a boundary where 2 plates move toward each other
- a dense sphere of solid iron and nickel in the center of the Earth (2wrds)
- a soft layer which floats on the lithosphere
- a ridge layer made up in the upper most part of the mantle
- the amount of mass in a given space
- a system that determines the distance of an object under water.
21 Clues: a break in the lithosphere • a mountain chain under water • amount of force pushing on an area • the amount of mass in a given space • a layer of molten iron and nickel(2wrds0 • a boundary that moves away from each other • a soft layer which floats on the lithosphere • the layer of rock that forms Earths outer core • a boundary where 2 plates slide past each other • ...
Vocabulary Celebration List 6 2013-06-28
Across
- quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail
- behave unnaturally or affectedly
- express a negative opinion of
- a word that is formed with a suffix to indicate smallness
- a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
- make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
- stubbornly unyielding dogmatic of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
- in a state of sulky dissatisfaction
- lack of agreement or harmony
- unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice
- wasting time
- constituting a separate entity or part
- marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
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- detect with the senses
- tending to move apart in different directions
- inequality or difference in some respect
- lack of self confidence
- lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
- your usual mood
- showing a brooding ill humor
- to cause to separate and go in different directions
- stop associating with
- the state of being held in low esteem
- dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion)
- cause to become widely known
- wander from a direct or straight course
- a difference of opinion
- easily handled or managed
29 Clues: wasting time • your usual mood • stop associating with • detect with the senses • lack of self confidence • a difference of opinion • easily handled or managed • showing a brooding ill humor • lack of agreement or harmony • cause to become widely known • express a negative opinion of • behave unnaturally or affectedly • in a state of sulky dissatisfaction • ...
Plate Tectonics 2014-10-09
Across
- most layer of earths surface
- layer of earths surface, composed mostly of silicon, oxygen, magnesium, and iron
- ridges/where new ocean crust is formed
- sea trenches/where ocean crust is destroyed
- magma forced upward mantle at mid-ocean ridges produce seafloor
- boundary/place where two plates move together
- tectonics/theory that states that earths crust and upper mantle are broken into sections, which move around on a special layer of the mantle
- large landmass hypothesized to have broken apart about 200 million years ago into continents
- layer of earths surface made up of the crust and a part of the upper mantle
- people to consider the moving of landmasses
- rate that south america is moving away from Africa
- current/cycle of heating, rising, cooling, and sinking
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- valley/long, narrow depression
- drift/hypothesis that the continents have moved slowly to their current locations
- wegner/his hypothesis was the continental drift
- the earth/pangaea means
- layer of earth's surface below the lithosphere
- boundary/boundary between two plates that are moving apart
- boundary/plate boundary that occurs when two plates slide past one another
- of earths crust and upper mantle
- Hess/proved Alferd Wegners hypothesis
21 Clues: the earth/pangaea means • most layer of earths surface • valley/long, narrow depression • of earths crust and upper mantle • Hess/proved Alferd Wegners hypothesis • ridges/where new ocean crust is formed • sea trenches/where ocean crust is destroyed • people to consider the moving of landmasses • boundary/place where two plates move together • ...
Chapter Three - Plate Tectonics 2014-11-25
Across
- the number of main layers of the Earth
- how much mass there is in a volume of substance
- theory that explains the formation, movement, and subduction of Earth's plates
- moving downward this layer is between the lithospere and the lower mantle
- responsible for the movement of mantle rock
- boundary where plates slide past each other
- the oldest rock is located _____ from the mid-ocean ridge
- things like rocks that can be held in your hand as proof
- heat transfer through touch
- the ocean that is expanding due to a lower number of trenches
- fernlike plant found in Antarctica
- an example of indirect evidence
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- force pressing on an area; increases as you move down through Earth
- provided drilling samples to support sea-floor spreading
- location of oceanic crust sinking back into the mantle
- creator of the theory of sea-floor spreading
- all lands
- part of the core that is molten
- creator of the idea that the continents have moved to their current locations
- forms along divergent boundaries
- location of the formation of new crust
- well tested concept that explains observations
- form when two continental plates collide
- a device that uses sound waves to help map the ocean floor
24 Clues: all lands • heat transfer through touch • part of the core that is molten • an example of indirect evidence • forms along divergent boundaries • fernlike plant found in Antarctica • the number of main layers of the Earth • location of the formation of new crust • form when two continental plates collide • responsible for the movement of mantle rock • ...
5th Grade Intervention 2014-11-05
Across
- any water on earth
- Type of boundary when plates come together to make a volcano, mountain, or trench
- water
- Inorganic substances that are naturally occurring, crystalline in structure, and are inside of rocks
- sediment gets stuck together
- rocks are broken down and cracked
- organelle in plant AND animal cells that breaks down sugar to make energy
- Type of plate boundary when plates move away, forming a trench
- soft rock formed when sediments and other organic material are cemented together
- Organic material on the topsoil that adds nutrients
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- Type of boundary when plates slide past each other causing an earthquake
- when plants make their own food using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide
- variable that gets measured
- sediments and soil move by water, wind, and glaciers
- variable that gets changed or manipulated
- Rock formed under extreme heat and pressure
- organelle in plant cell where plants make food (photosynthesis)
- alive or once alive such as plants, dead flowers, animals, and bones
- sediment is moved to a specific new location; this builds up the shore line/ land
- The atmosphere is made up of this, gas, and other materials
- small pieces of rock made after weathering
- Rock formed when lava/ magma cools and hardens
22 Clues: water • any water on earth • variable that gets measured • sediment gets stuck together • rocks are broken down and cracked • variable that gets changed or manipulated • small pieces of rock made after weathering • Rock formed under extreme heat and pressure • Rock formed when lava/ magma cools and hardens • Organic material on the topsoil that adds nutrients • ...
Plate tectonics crossword puzzle 2021-11-09
Across
- the name of a single landmass that broke up around 200-300 million years ago
- The layer of earth where convection currents take place
- Two plates separating
- The innermost/ densest layer of earth
- a system that determines the distance of an object underwater by recording the echoes of sound waves
- a process in which new land is created and the old land moves further away from where it was created
- a break in the earths lithosphere along which the rocks move along
- a vibration that travels through the earth carrying the energy released by an earthquake
- Two plates sliding past each other
- a extensive break in the middle of the ocean which shows how plates are moving
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- a liquid-like solid layer in the mantle that the plates float on
- Two plates colliding
- a deep valley along the ocean floor where the oceanic crust sinks into the mantle
- the upper most layer of the mantle
- a deep valley that is formed when to plates move apart
- Alfred Wegener created this idea
- Large chunks of land that float on the mantle
- The Scientist that created the plate Tectonics theory
- process by which a denser crust sinks down into the mantle
- The outermost/ least dense layer of earth
20 Clues: Two plates colliding • Two plates separating • Alfred Wegener created this idea • the upper most layer of the mantle • Two plates sliding past each other • The innermost/ densest layer of earth • The outermost/ least dense layer of earth • Large chunks of land that float on the mantle • The Scientist that created the plate Tectonics theory • ...
Volcanoes Crossword 2022-03-08
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- a thick mostly flattened layer of cooled lava
- volcanoes with a broad base and gently sloping sides
- the resistance of a liquid material to flow
- opening of a volcano
- name used to describe numerous explosive volcanoes that form on the convergent plate boundaries surrounding the Pacific Ocean
- a column of extremely hot mantle rock
- expanded area inside a volcano formed from molten rock
- volcanoes formed from alternating layers of hardened lava flows and pyroclastic material
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- any place where gas, ash, or melted rock come out of the ground
- an eruption has not occurred in a long period of time
- giant sections of lithosphere on Earth's surface
- melted rock that has reached Earth's surface
- hot ash and bits of rock
- an opening or depression at the top of a volcano caused by eruptions
- a long, underwater mountain range formed at divergent plate boundaries
- volcanoes with steep sides, formed from a build up of ash and cinders around the vent
- giant cracks in Earth's surface
- large, basin-shaped depression formed by the collapse of the roof of a magma chamber
- a location where a mantle plume rises through the asthenosphere to Earth's surface
- melted rock below the surface of Earth
20 Clues: opening of a volcano • hot ash and bits of rock • giant cracks in Earth's surface • a column of extremely hot mantle rock • melted rock below the surface of Earth • the resistance of a liquid material to flow • melted rock that has reached Earth's surface • a thick mostly flattened layer of cooled lava • giant sections of lithosphere on Earth's surface • ...
Q1-4 2022-04-25
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- this rock type is made with heat
- the layer of atmosphere where weather occurs
- when heat goes up and cold goes down
- these plate boundaries cause earthquakes
- we revolve around this
- the hottest layer of Earth
- heat traveling through empty space
- the thinnest layer of Earth
- this is what stays the same during the lab
- the thickest layer of Earth
- this is made when magma cools and hardens
- fast current of moving air that flows West to East
- this is what you change in a lab
- this is what you count or measure in a lab
- these 4 planets are made of rock
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- these 4 planets are made of gas
- when rocks break through other rocks
- when two objects are touching and heat is transferred
- these plate boundaries create mountains
- the moving of rocks
- the 3 kinds of boundaries
- the 3 kinds are elliptical, spiral and irregular
- these plate boundaries cause sea floor spreading
- there are 2 kinds, heliocentric and geocentric
- this needs warm water in order to form
- this is made by weathered rocks squishing together
- when water freezes it does this
- the breaking down of rocks
- states the oldest rocks are on the bottom
29 Clues: the moving of rocks • we revolve around this • the 3 kinds of boundaries • the hottest layer of Earth • the breaking down of rocks • the thinnest layer of Earth • the thickest layer of Earth • these 4 planets are made of gas • when water freezes it does this • this rock type is made with heat • this is what you change in a lab • these 4 planets are made of rock • ...
Honors Biology Final Study Game 2022-06-02
Across
- group of similar organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring
- Ex: Aa, Bb
- trait controlled by two or more genes
- Ex: brown hair
- sister chromatids separate (chromosomes), spindle fibers retract
- type of selection where organisms better suited to survive in the environment survive and reproduce
- breaks down waste material
- Type of evolution where interbreeding species split into two or more evolutionary groups
- scientific term for having two different alleles for a trait
- credited as the father of the evolutionary theory
- ability of an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment
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- the differences within a species
- inherited characteristic that increases an organism's chance of survival
- formation of a new and distinct species
- capture energy from sun and turns into sugar/food for plant
- different forms of a gene
- liquid like portion outside of nucleus, holds organelles in place
- structure that appears similar in two unrelated organisms
- DNA is membrane bound, many organelles (plants, animals and fungi)
- magnification of objective lens (yellow)
- change over time
- Haylen's dog
- thin, fibrous form of BNA + proteins that make up chromosomes
- evolutionary process by which unrelated organisms independently evolve similarities when adapting to similar environments
- division of the cytoplasm, two separate cells
25 Clues: Ex: Aa, Bb • Haylen's dog • Ex: brown hair • change over time • different forms of a gene • breaks down waste material • the differences within a species • trait controlled by two or more genes • formation of a new and distinct species • magnification of objective lens (yellow) • division of the cytoplasm, two separate cells • credited as the father of the evolutionary theory • ...
Unit 5&6 2022-05-08
Across
- magnify something twice
- institution or private person financing some cultural enterprise
- someone's insolvency
- e.g. art in a museum
- completely non-quantifiable and cannot be predicted and forecasted
- a small amount of a good, usually a cosmetic, given free of charge to the customer for testing
- an emphatic, short, stylistically expressive wording that is intended to persuade you to do something or promote a specific opinion or incline to some principle of conduct
- opposite: increase
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- we describe something in this way that causes differences of opinion and divergent opinions, does not allow for an unambiguous assessment
- income after deducting expenses
- the highest point of the graph
- The amount the buyer should receive if he gives the seller a higher amount
- Newspaper article written by an advertiser
- a sheet of paper with a short text of political or advertising content
- a sum of money that someone has borrowed and needs to return
- someone who are announcing radio or television programs or reading prepared texts
- a poor person who asks someone for financial or other material support
- is money which people or organisations put into a business to make a profit
- buyer of goods or services
- the American equivalent is ,,billboard"
20 Clues: opposite: increase • someone's insolvency • e.g. art in a museum • magnify something twice • buyer of goods or services • the highest point of the graph • income after deducting expenses • the American equivalent is ,,billboard" • Newspaper article written by an advertiser • a sum of money that someone has borrowed and needs to return • ...
Plate Motion 2022-09-12
Across
- evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints
- hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth
- an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart
- a sudden shaking of Earth's surface
- moving toward the same place
- the outside or top layer of something
- gas, lava, and ash are pushed to the surface
- water
- a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground
- a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
- any of Earth’s main continuous areas of land
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- to examine in detail for a purpose
- moving apart in different directions
- the place where two plates meet
- how often or fast something happens
- Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation,
- a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together
- the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth’s plates
- the slow pulling apart of land that is caused by plate movement
- an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago
- the sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano
- one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer
22 Clues: water • moving toward the same place • the place where two plates meet • to examine in detail for a purpose • how often or fast something happens • a sudden shaking of Earth's surface • moving apart in different directions • the outside or top layer of something • hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth • gas, lava, and ash are pushed to the surface • ...
Plate Motion 2022-09-12
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- moving toward the same place
- an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago
- hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth
- the place where two plates meet
- water
- the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth’s plates
- the sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano
- Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation,
- the outside or top layer of something
- moving apart in different directions
- the slow pulling apart of land that is caused by plate movement
- one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer
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- evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints
- any of Earth’s main continuous areas of land
- a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground
- to examine in detail for a purpose
- an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart
- gas, lava, and ash are pushed to the surface
- a sudden shaking of Earth's surface
- a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
- a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together
- how often or fast something happens
22 Clues: water • moving toward the same place • the place where two plates meet • to examine in detail for a purpose • a sudden shaking of Earth's surface • how often or fast something happens • moving apart in different directions • the outside or top layer of something • hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth • any of Earth’s main continuous areas of land • ...
English IV words so far..... 2022-09-15
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- conspicuously bad
- linguistics; regional variety of language
- a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect
- an abbreviation formed from initial letters
- state of clear and forceful expression with grace
- the direct opposite (not antonym)
- careful to consider all circumstances and possible consequences
- marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy; surreptitious
- intended to teach moral instruction
- used in or characteristic of familiar and informal conversation; informal
- something suggested by a word or thing; implication
- a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something
- the quality or state of being confusing or having different meanings
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- expressing oneself clearly
- respect and esteem due a superior or an elder
- a principle or standard by which something may be judged or decided
- moving or extending in different directions from a common point
- a mutual relationship and connectivity between two things or ideas
- to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively
- a person or a thing that is chronologically out of place
- relatively close sound; repetition of vowels
- something or someone that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand
- a word of opposite meaning
- an intricate and difficult problem
24 Clues: conspicuously bad • expressing oneself clearly • a word of opposite meaning • the direct opposite (not antonym) • an intricate and difficult problem • intended to teach moral instruction • linguistics; regional variety of language • an abbreviation formed from initial letters • relatively close sound; repetition of vowels • respect and esteem due a superior or an elder • ...
Science vocab choice 2022-02-04
Across
- massive irregularly shaped
- A sliding force
- A area prone to earthquakes
- A tall Rocky peak with lava
- A force that shakes areas of earth
- when two plates come together
- A squeezing force
- Transverse waves
- The innermost layer of the earth
- The outer layer of the earth
- when the bottom of the sea splits
- The movement towards the crust
- A fault along a plate boundary
- The rigid outer part of the earth
- The cause of earthquakes
- a mechanical wave that propagates
- A tall Rocky peak
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- one of the two main types ofWaves
- A current in a fluid envirement
- the largest layer of the earth
- when two tectonic plats move away
- A giant wall of water
- A deep crevice in the ocean
- dark organic material in soil
- Fertile soil or clay
- You plant flowers in it
- The 2nd most inner layer of earth
- When a continent breaks off
- Characterized by active volcanoes
- upper layer of the earths mantle
- A force that pulls
- depresion of the earths surface
- Pottery is made out of it
- super continent from long ago
34 Clues: A sliding force • Transverse waves • A squeezing force • A tall Rocky peak • A force that pulls • Fertile soil or clay • A giant wall of water • You plant flowers in it • The cause of earthquakes • Pottery is made out of it • massive irregularly shaped • A area prone to earthquakes • A tall Rocky peak with lava • A deep crevice in the ocean • When a continent breaks off • ...
Plate Tectonic Crossword Puzzle 2022-01-14
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- surface shaking on Earth from a sudden release of energy in Earth's lithosphere
- chain of volcanoes formed above a subducting plate, positioned in an arc shape
- area of Earth's mantle where hot plumes rise upward, forming a volcano on the crust
- discontinuity in a volume of rock across where there has been a lot of displacement from rock-mass movements
- where two or more lithospheric plates collide
- vertical elevation of the Earth's surface in response to natural causes
- The Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into sections called
- fault along a plate boundary where motion is mostly horizontal
- oceanic trench area marginal to a continent
- idea that continents havee and are still moving slowly across Earth
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- two tectonic plates that are MOVING AWAY from each other
- pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle
- the edge where two plates meet
- theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion
- when a rock snaps from stress
- edge of Earth's plates meet at this boundary
- formation of new areas of oceanic crust
- linear shaped lowland between mountain ranges created from a geologic rift
- what makes the plate move
- rock gets thin as it pulls apart
20 Clues: what makes the plate move • when a rock snaps from stress • the edge where two plates meet • rock gets thin as it pulls apart • formation of new areas of oceanic crust • oceanic trench area marginal to a continent • pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle • edge of Earth's plates meet at this boundary • where two or more lithospheric plates collide • ...
Plate Tectonic Crossword Puzzle 2022-01-14
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- area of Earth's mantle where hot plumes rise upward, forming a volcano on the crust
- when a rock snaps from stress
- pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle
- two tectonic plates that are MOVING AWAY from each other
- formation of new areas of oceanic crust
- The Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into sections called
- the edge where two plates meet
- idea that continents havee and are still moving slowly across Earth
- chain of volcanoes formed above a subducting plate, positioned in an arc shape
- where two or more lithospheric plates collide
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- linear shaped lowland between mountain ranges created from a geologic rift
- rock gets thin as it pulls apart
- theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion
- edge of Earth's plates meet at this boundary
- oceanic trench area marginal to a continent
- what makes the plate move
- vertical elevation of the Earth's surface in response to natural causes
- surface shaking on Earth from a sudden release of energy in Earth's lithosphere
- fault along a plate boundary where motion is mostly horizontal
- discontinuity in a volume of rock across where there has been a lot of displacement from rock-mass movements
- move on top of the mantle like rafts
21 Clues: what makes the plate move • when a rock snaps from stress • the edge where two plates meet • rock gets thin as it pulls apart • move on top of the mantle like rafts • formation of new areas of oceanic crust • oceanic trench area marginal to a continent • edge of Earth's plates meet at this boundary • pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle • ...
Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle 2022-01-14
Across
- theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion
- discontinuity in a volume of rock across where there has been a lot of displacement from rock-mass movements
- surface shaking on Earth from a sudden release of energy in Earth's lithosphere
- pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle
- The Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into sections called
- area of Earth's mantle where hot plumes rise upward, forming a volcano on the crust
- where two or more lithospheric plates collide
- linear shaped lowland between mountain ranges created from a geologic rift
- chain of volcanoes formed above a subducting plate, positioned in an arc shape
- vertical elevation of the Earth's surface in response to natural causes
- oceanic trench area marginal to a continent
- formation of new areas of oceanic crust
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- idea that continents havee and are still moving slowly across Earth
- two tectonic plates that are MOVING AWAY from each other
- edge of Earth's plates meet at this boundary
- fault along a plate boundary where motion is mostly horizontal
- what makes the plate move
- when a rock snaps from stress
- rock gets thin as it pulls apart
- the edge where two plates meet
20 Clues: what makes the plate move • when a rock snaps from stress • the edge where two plates meet • rock gets thin as it pulls apart • formation of new areas of oceanic crust • oceanic trench area marginal to a continent • edge of Earth's plates meet at this boundary • pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle • where two or more lithospheric plates collide • ...
Geology Vocabulary 2022-01-20
Across
- Core The innermost layer of the Earth; composed of a solid ball of iron.
- Molten rock erupted from volcanic structures.
- A type of rock from the changes of other types of rock via changing environments.
- When two plate boundaries move towards each other and collide.
- The secondary wave; only able to pass through solids.
- A type of rock formed from the solidification of molten rock.
- The location directly above the earthquake’s focus.
- A supercontinent where all current continents fit together.
- The point within the Earth where earthquakes begin.
- Plate Gigantic solid pieces of crust that make up Earth’s outermost layer.
- The molten rock underneath the earth’s crust.
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- A boundary where new crust is created.
- The fastest seismic wave.
- Consists of all the minerals of the Earth’s crust.
- An upper part of the mantle; what the Earth’s crust floats on.
- Core A liquid composed of nickel and iron. It is always spinning.
- A measure of the strength of earthquakes.
- An instrument used to measure the motion of the ground during an earthquake.
- The movement of the Earth mantle which moves the plates.
- The cracks in the Earth’s crust where movement occurs.
- A series of huge ocean waves caused by a rapid disturbance of sea water.
21 Clues: The fastest seismic wave. • A boundary where new crust is created. • A measure of the strength of earthquakes. • Molten rock erupted from volcanic structures. • The molten rock underneath the earth’s crust. • Consists of all the minerals of the Earth’s crust. • The location directly above the earthquake’s focus. • The point within the Earth where earthquakes begin. • ...
Plate Tectonics Vocaulary 2022-11-05
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- the part of the earth's crust that makes up the seafloor
- the eruption of molten rock (magma) onto the surface of a planet
- the first waves to arrive at a seismograph
- places where plates slide sideways past each other
- a mixture of molten and semi-molten rock found beneath the surface of the earth
- a large plume of hot mantle material rising from deep within the earth
- anything thrown into the air during a volcanic eruption
- the mostly solid bulk of earth's interior
- two plates comes together
- a dip-slip fault in which the block above the fault has moved downward relative to the block below
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- a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock
- built from particles and blobs of congealed lava ejected from a single vent
- a point at which rays of light, heat, or other radiation meet after being refracted or refracted
- two tectonic plates move away from each other
- is slid and 90% iron
- comes out of a volcano
- sudden movement of the earth's lithosphere
- a large depression formed when a volcano erupts and collapses
- a seismic body wave that shakes the ground back and forth
- layer of the earth between the solid inner core and lower mantle
20 Clues: is slid and 90% iron • comes out of a volcano • two plates comes together • the mostly solid bulk of earth's interior • the first waves to arrive at a seismograph • sudden movement of the earth's lithosphere • two tectonic plates move away from each other • places where plates slide sideways past each other • anything thrown into the air during a volcanic eruption • ...
Plate Tectonic Crossword 2021-06-17
Across
- - the upper layer of the Earth's mantle
- - when the plates crash into each other
- - ______ and erosion
- - an eruption that explodes and shoots out lava + magma
- - The sudden energy of the Earth's crust shaking
- - granite
- - a volume of rocks across which there has been significant displacements
- - when the plates move sideways
- - the second wave you feel in an earthquake
- - anthracite
- - A ______ ______ based on rocks
- - an area where most volcano and earthquake disasters happen
- - theory of ___________ ______
- - seismic _____
- - the size of the earthquake's power
- - conglomerate
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- - the study of volcanoes
- - the seismic wave that shakes the rocks forth and back
- - Scientist that discovered plate tectonics
- - the process in which the oceanic lithosphere is recycled into the earth's mantle
- - when the plates move apart
- - the study of earthquakes
- - the point on the earth's surface vertically above the hypocenter
- - the movement of. tectonic plates is related to ___________ _______ in the earth's mantle
- - the rigid part of the crust
- - when the plates start moving together
- - the earth's lithosphere that is found under the oceans and formed at spreading centers on oceanic ridges
- - a series of water forming a big wave
- - volcanic regions thought to be fed by underlying mantle
29 Clues: - granite • - anthracite • - conglomerate • - seismic _____ • - ______ and erosion • - the study of volcanoes • - the study of earthquakes • - when the plates move apart • - the rigid part of the crust • - theory of ___________ ______ • - when the plates move sideways • - A ______ ______ based on rocks • - the size of the earthquake's power • - a series of water forming a big wave • ...
plate tectonics 2022-10-06
Across
- the upper layer of the earth's mantle below the lithosphere
- the several large landmasses that make up the world
- form when plate motions generate magma that erupts on the earths surface
- a boundary where two plates move together
- the process by which new oceanic crust forms when magma rises up
- join together into a single large landmass and then started drifting
- a ring of volcanos on the edge of tectonic plates
- the impression of a prehistoric animals in rocks
- a process by which material is added to tectonic plates or landmass
- when two tectonic plates move away from each other and make room in the ocean floor is called
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- A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the matle crust
- where two tectonic plates are sliding against each other
- a sudden and violent shaking of the ground
- the study of magnetic minerals in rocks
- the lithosphere is divided into
- a long undersea mountain chain that has a steep narrow valley at its center
- crust beneath the ocean
- the single huge super continent that existed many years ago when all earths continents were joined together
- what element makes up most of earth's core
- when one tectonic plate sinks beneath another
20 Clues: crust beneath the ocean • the lithosphere is divided into • the study of magnetic minerals in rocks • a boundary where two plates move together • a sudden and violent shaking of the ground • what element makes up most of earth's core • when one tectonic plate sinks beneath another • the impression of a prehistoric animals in rocks • ...
Vocabulary-Week 10 2022-10-14
Across
- downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate
- to be carried slowly by a current of air, water or magma
- supporting facts showing a belief or statement is true
- to come from a particular source; originate
- something produced by a cause or necessarily following from a set of conditions, directly follows from
- sliding or moving in opposite directions
- mostly, mainly, firstly
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- coming closer together
- greater in size, importance or rank
- lesser in size, importance, or rank
- the process of growth or increase, typically by the gradual accumulation of additional layers or matter
- moving or spreading apart
- a type of igneous rock that forms when magma rises into the earth's crust, but does not erupt onto the surface
- as a secondary or less important factor
- deduce or conclude from evidence and reasoning
- cause (something) to happen; bring about; touch or bring about emotion
- reason for an action, condition or phenomenon
- change which is a result or consequence of an action; cause (something) to happen; bring about
- a conclusion reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning
- crack or fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock
20 Clues: coming closer together • mostly, mainly, firstly • moving or spreading apart • greater in size, importance or rank • lesser in size, importance, or rank • as a secondary or less important factor • sliding or moving in opposite directions • to come from a particular source; originate • reason for an action, condition or phenomenon • ...
Plate tectonics 2023-11-15
Across
- someone who studies seismic waves
- An area in earths crust where magma is able to form and seep through
- a cycle of heat in which the hotter something is, the more it rises, and the colder something is, the more it sinks
- A large well known belt of bubbles
- Scientist that discovered Pangea's existence and presented the idea of continental drift
- The theory about all motion of plates
- Long mountain range that forms underwater
- the super continent that existed more than 200 million years
- The solid parts of the Earth lithosphere that are broken into pieces
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- An ancient specimen secured in rock
- An area where the ocean floor sinks into the mantle, forming a dipped area
- The process when Oceanic crust gets sucked underground into the mantle
- The idea of the continents slowly gliding over Earth
- a boundary in which two plates come together
- a boundary in which two plates scrape against each other in opposite direction
- Breaks in the Earths crust
- An area where Earth's crust diverges above water
- a boundary where two plates split away from each other
- heated material melted to a liquid state underground
- Magma after it gets to the surface
20 Clues: Breaks in the Earths crust • someone who studies seismic waves • A large well known belt of bubbles • Magma after it gets to the surface • An ancient specimen secured in rock • The theory about all motion of plates • Long mountain range that forms underwater • a boundary in which two plates come together • An area where Earth's crust diverges above water • ...
Tectonic plates and the geosphere 2024-01-09
Across
- gooey melted rock that is under the lithosphere
- heat transfer in the asthenosphere through the movement of either liquid or gas.
- an opening in which material removal forms a narrow opening in the ground.
- Boundaries the border between two plates
- consequences of plate movement
- a line that is a volcano (a crack in the earth that lava comes out of.
- a mountain that lava spews out of.
- 2 plate boundaries moving side to side and scraping against each other
- innermost layer of the earth
- plates that move towards each other
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- a particular hot spot that liquifies the lithosphere and makes a volcano
- a break in the earth's crust and where 2 plates meet
- plates that move away from each other
- The solid top most layer of earth. It includes the crust and the upper mantle. it is the ______ sphere
- a continental and oceanic plate collide and the oceanic plate goes under the other
- solid outermost layer of the earth. the crust is subdivided into the continental crust (dry land) and the oceanic crust (the wet crust)
- 2 plates smooshing together
- tectonic plates shaking
- mantle the thin uppermost part of the mantle. It is solid.
- liquid metal and rock (iron and nickel)
20 Clues: tectonic plates shaking • 2 plates smooshing together • innermost layer of the earth • consequences of plate movement • a mountain that lava spews out of. • plates that move towards each other • plates that move away from each other • liquid metal and rock (iron and nickel) • Boundaries the border between two plates • gooey melted rock that is under the lithosphere • ...
Plate Tectonics Crossword 2023-11-09
Across
- An opening in Earth's crust where lave escapes
- A string of volcanic mountains at a subduction zone
- The plastic-like layer of the mantle.
- Place under Earth's crust where the earthquake happens
- A boundary where plates move together
- Large vibrations moving through Earth's crust
- The lighter, older, and thicker crust.
- A boundary where plates move apart.
- Kind of volcano with alternating layers of lava
- Largest type of volcano with gently sloping sides
- German scientist who came up with Continental Drift
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- A place where two tectonic plates meet.
- A deep canyon formed in a subduction zone.
- Place where most earthquakes happened
- Rock and solid lava falling from the sky
- When a denser plate slides under another plate.
- An area of volcanic activity in the middle of a plate
- The outermost layer of the Earth.
- A boundary where plates slide past one another
- The crust making up the ocean floor.
- __plates are able to move, bend, or break while floating
- The thickest layer of Earth just below the crust.
- The name of the ocean where you find the Ring of Fire
- A mid-ocean ___ is an underwater mountain range.
- The crust and rigid upper part of the mantle.
- Place on Earth's crust where earthquake is located
26 Clues: The outermost layer of the Earth. • A boundary where plates move apart. • The crust making up the ocean floor. • Place where most earthquakes happened • The plastic-like layer of the mantle. • A boundary where plates move together • The lighter, older, and thicker crust. • A place where two tectonic plates meet. • Rock and solid lava falling from the sky • ...
Plate motion and fossils 2023-10-17
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- hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth
- The layer of soft solid rock underneath earths plate
- The grouping of volcanos and earthquakes in certain areas demonstrates this.
- two plates moving into each other
- A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
- What the earths outer layer is made of
- an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart
- a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground
- When two plates slide
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- The place where two plates meet
- feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel or sand dune
- What usually happens when two plates collide
- What occurs when the ocean floor slides under the land?
- natural solid with a characteristic crystal shape
- a reptile from the Mesozoic era, in many species reaching an enormous size.
- one of the earliest ways geologists thought continents moved over time.
- The study of plate motion explains processes in the
- When two plates move away from each other
- a preserved remain, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age
- openings, or vents where lava, and steam erupt onto the Earth's surface
20 Clues: When two plates slide • The place where two plates meet • two plates moving into each other • What the earths outer layer is made of • hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth • When two plates move away from each other • What usually happens when two plates collide • natural solid with a characteristic crystal shape • The study of plate motion explains processes in the • ...
VICTORIAS UHH CROSSWORD FOR BRODIN (ME) 2024-01-30
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- THIS IS DEFINITELY A 10/10 BUT THEY ARE HOW OFTEN OR FAST SOMETHING MOVES
- THREE WORDS, volcano active eruption, WHEN LAVA IS GETTING READY TO COME OUT BASICLY
- INTERACTING PARTS FORMING A WHOLE.
- EARTH SHAKING
- TO EXAMINE
- WHEN THE VOLCANO BLOWS
- MOVING APPART DIFFERENT WAYS
- A FORM OF LAND
- UHH THERES 4 OF EM’
- A DIAGRAM USED TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING, or used to make adds for a brand.
- MOVING TO SAME PLACE
- YOU WOULD THINKS PLATES DONT GO HERE, THEY JUST MEET HERE
- DRIFTING BUT THE VERSION WHEN ITS FROM PLATE MOVEMENT
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- FORMS MAGMA IS ALSO SOFT BUT SOLID
- A DIGRAM OF WHATS INSIDE SOMETHING
- MAKES UP EARTHS OUTER LAYER, I ALSO EAT OFF IT
- OLD BONES
- the outer version of the middle
- EARTHS BREAD _____
- WHAT MANTLE MAKES
- TOP LAYER
- the middle
- SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN A _____, ALSO IS ON MOST OF MY OLD PANTS
- HOLES IN GROUND THAT HAS HOT WATER AND STEAM
- REPTILE THAT COULDN'T SWIM FAR AND ARE NOW ALL DEAD
- THINGS IN THE OCEAN WHEN TWO PLATES ARE MOVED TOGETHER (why do we keep talking about plates?)
- WHAT VOLCANOS HAVE
27 Clues: OLD BONES • TOP LAYER • the middle • TO EXAMINE • EARTH SHAKING • A FORM OF LAND • WHAT MANTLE MAKES • EARTHS BREAD _____ • WHAT VOLCANOS HAVE • UHH THERES 4 OF EM’ • MOVING TO SAME PLACE • WHEN THE VOLCANO BLOWS • MOVING APPART DIFFERENT WAYS • the outer version of the middle • FORMS MAGMA IS ALSO SOFT BUT SOLID • A DIGRAM OF WHATS INSIDE SOMETHING • INTERACTING PARTS FORMING A WHOLE. • ...
science lab: chad 2024-05-13
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- the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates
- an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or layer
- a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
- something we observe to be similar over and over again
- a sudden shaking of Earth's surface
- hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth
- moving toward the same place
- hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth
- moving apart in different directions
- that forms on the su
- a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune
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- ridge an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart
- a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground d
- evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones,
- an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago
- any of Earth's main continuous areas of land, such as Africa
- Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water
- to examine in detail for a purpose
- how often or fast something happens
- the sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano
20 Clues: that forms on the su • moving toward the same place • to examine in detail for a purpose • a sudden shaking of Earth's surface • how often or fast something happens • moving apart in different directions • hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth • hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth • something we observe to be similar over and over again • ...
Earths Interior 2024-05-21
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- The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
- The type of rock in the inner core.
- The feature that separates Earth's crust and mantle from the asthenosphere.
- Earth's mantle at a local scale.
- The heat source where rock is heated and expands.
- A type of boundary where plates move away from each other left and right.
- Gigantic pieces of Earth's crust and upper mantle.
- A type of boundary where the plates move up and down from each other by sliding past eachother.
- The only planet with tectonic plates
- Seismic waves travel ___ through solid rock than liquid rock.
- The shaking of Earth's surface resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that makes seismic waves.
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- The solid, outer part of Earth that includes the upper portion of the mantle.
- Earth's mantle at a global scale.
- ___ will subduct under the continental crust.
- ___ is caused by differences in temperature and density in a fluid.
- The layer of the Earth that lies below the lithosphere.
- ___ move slower through liquids than solids.
- A measure of how much mass there is in a volume of a substance.
- ___ waves are generated by earthquakes that travel through or over Earth.
- The type of rock in the outer core.
20 Clues: Earth's mantle at a local scale. • Earth's mantle at a global scale. • The type of rock in the inner core. • The type of rock in the outer core. • The only planet with tectonic plates • ___ move slower through liquids than solids. • ___ will subduct under the continental crust. • The heat source where rock is heated and expands. • ...
AP Psych Unit 5 2024-04-26
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- Intelligence that depends on reasoning.
- A bias that gives you a tendency to look for information that only confirms your ideas.
- Encoding using the meaning of words
- Type of processing where the brain process many functions simultaneously
- Thinking that increases the number of solutions for a problem
- Processing of words based on structure and appearance
- Memory of specific events
- When you stick to your initial conceptions after it has been proven wrong.
- Thinking that narrows down solutions to find the best solution for a problem
- Memory that doesn't require conscious recollection
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- Intelligence that depends on previous knowledge
- Processing information into the memory system
- Memory aids using the sound of words
- Amnesia attributing to the wrong source an event we have heard, heard about, read about, or imagined.
- Processing that requires attention and conscious effort.
- Amnesia that affects the ability toto retrieve information from one's past
- Impairment of language, usually caused by left hemisphere damage either to Broca's area
- Processing of words that uses definitions and meaning.
- Amnesia that affects the ability to form new memories
- Memory of audio stiumuli
- Memory of facts and experiences
- Ehen previously stored memories can change after being recalled before being stored again.
22 Clues: Memory of audio stiumuli • Memory of specific events • Memory of facts and experiences • Encoding using the meaning of words • Memory aids using the sound of words • Intelligence that depends on reasoning. • Processing information into the memory system • Intelligence that depends on previous knowledge • Memory that doesn't require conscious recollection • ...
7th Amplify Review 2024-05-10
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- A group of the same species living in an area
- Ending substances in a chemical reaction
- A noticeably different state of a substance
- Rocks formed by sediment being compacted and cemented
- A model that shows what eats what in an ecosystem
- Small, broken up pieces of rock
- Starting substances in a chemical reaction
- Molten rock above Earth's surface
- Something that can be observed about a substance, a characteristic
- Energy of motion
- When two or more populations use the same resource
- Plates moving away from each other
- The ability to make something move or change
- Tiny particles that make up everything
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- Plates moving toward one another
- All the living and nonliving things in an area that interact
- One of the sections of large solid rock that makes up Earth's outer layer
- The way molecules move around each other
- The pull between molecules of a substance
- Molten rock below Earth's surface
- Rocks formed when other rocks are transformed by heat and pressure
- The process of rocks being broken down into small pieces
- Two or more atoms joined together
- Process of sediment being moved from one location to another
- Rocks formed by cooled and solidified magma/lava
25 Clues: Energy of motion • Small, broken up pieces of rock • Plates moving toward one another • Molten rock below Earth's surface • Two or more atoms joined together • Molten rock above Earth's surface • Plates moving away from each other • Tiny particles that make up everything • Ending substances in a chemical reaction • The way molecules move around each other • ...
Teen Crossword 2024-10-01
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- A common theme or literary device
- Mike Lupica is known for writing books about this topic
- The opposite of real
- Remus Lupin, Jacob Black, Miss Lupescu
- First book of the Inheritance Cycle
- Main character of a horror video game by American McGee and a book by Lewis Carroll
- "__ the Great is Not Okay"
- Main character of a story
- Edward Cullen, Dracula, Darren Shan
- Japanese comics
- Popular LGBTQIA+ comic adapted into a Netflix series
- The demigod protagonist of a popular series
- Baggins goes on an adventure
- Genre with secrets and suspense
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- The ______ Diaries
- Female main character
- Long standing series about pirates that began in 1997 and now has a Netflix show
- A book series set in three parts
- Surname of brothers Hank and John
- Symbol of rebellion against the Capitol
- Classic coming-of-age novel by S.E. Hinton
- A type of remake in media
- The type of society in The Hunger Games and Divergent series
- Often paired with sci-fi
- Popular arachnid hero featured in various movies, tv shows, comics, and video games
- Novels Long form works that use words and art in a sequence
- A hero's mission, journey, or adventure
- One of the two major comic publishers
- 'No funerals, no mourners'
29 Clues: Japanese comics • The ______ Diaries • The opposite of real • Female main character • Often paired with sci-fi • A type of remake in media • Main character of a story • "__ the Great is Not Okay" • 'No funerals, no mourners' • Baggins goes on an adventure • Genre with secrets and suspense • A book series set in three parts • A common theme or literary device • ...
Plate Tectonics 2024-10-02
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- The mechanical layer of the Earth that tectonic plates rest on.
- The study of Earth’s Magnetic Field in the past.
- Mechanism for Plate Tectonics that involves the downward pull of plates due to the weight of the slab.
- The interior mechanical layer of the Earth that is the bottom layer, solid, and composed of iron.
- The chemical composition of the crust.
- The bottom chemical layer of the Earth.
- Spreading plates.
- Mechanism for Plate Tectonics that involves the separation of plates due to the exiting of magma on the ocean floor causing plates to separate.
- The middle chemical layer of the Earth.
- The interior mechanical layer of the Earth that is composed of iron and is liquid.
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- The chemical composition of the mantle.
- The chemical composition of the core.
- Theory that describes plate material, how plates move, and the effects of plate movement.
- The middle mechanical layer of the Earth that is composed entirely of mantle material.
- Colliding plates.
- Responsible for the theory Continental Drift.
- Mechanism for Plate Tectonics that involves the Circulation of molten material.
- The top mechanical layer of the Earth that represents tectonic plates.
- The outer chemical layer of the Earth.
- Plates sliding side by side.
20 Clues: Colliding plates. • Spreading plates. • Plates sliding side by side. • The chemical composition of the core. • The chemical composition of the crust. • The outer chemical layer of the Earth. • The chemical composition of the mantle. • The bottom chemical layer of the Earth. • The middle chemical layer of the Earth. • Responsible for the theory Continental Drift. • ...
TMorrison Crossword 2023-02-01
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- The definition of one plate forced to go underneath another
- Volcanic rocks produced from the cooling of volcanic lava
- Two plates moving and crashing into one another
- The largest layer of Earth that is almost completely solid
- Where heat escapes upward towards warmer material and the slow sinking of coolness
- An idea that explains slow motions within the mantle move Earth’s crust
- Study of the Earth’s crust and the processes that shape it throughout history
- Regions of high-energy ions in the Magnetosphere
- Where Earth’s magnetic field can trap small amounts of electrons
- Plates that slide parallel to each other
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- The process of different crust plates pushing away from each other
- The process of sorting the major components of a planet by density
- Seismic waves that bend depending on the materials it encounters
- Made of fragments igneous fragments and shells of organisms pressed into a layer
- Areas away from plate boundaries where heat is rising to the surface
- Waves that travel through Earth caused by earthquakes/explosion sites
- Any type of rock that has cooled from a molten state
- Made when high pressure/temperature alters igneous/sedimentary rock
- Used to detect seismic waves
- Charged particles flowing from the sun
20 Clues: Used to detect seismic waves • Charged particles flowing from the sun • Plates that slide parallel to each other • Two plates moving and crashing into one another • Regions of high-energy ions in the Magnetosphere • Any type of rock that has cooled from a molten state • Volcanic rocks produced from the cooling of volcanic lava • ...
Vocabulary Quiz 2023-02-08
Across
- tireless, continuing with vigor
- clothes, apparel, garb; to dress, adorn, or bedeck
- to make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out
- puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic
- thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren
- to be of use or benefit to; to make use of; to take advantage of; to profit, or benefit; use benefit or value
- a person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials; an animal that feeds on refuse or dead bodies
- very earnest, emotional, passionate; extremely hot
- to plunge straight down; a weight fastened to a line
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- to pass through or gain entrance to gradually or stealthily
- a very close friend, chum, buddy
- to declare publicly or officially
- self-controlled, not showing feeling in response to pleasure or pain
- t limit, be sparing or frugal; a limit or restriction; a fixed share of work or duty; a period of activity
- hatred, ill-will
- going in different directions; different from each other; departing from convention, deviant
- to join one end or be next to; to support, prop up.
- to cause anger, irritation, or bitterness
- capable of being grasped by he senses or mind
- an agent; substitute; a written permission allowing one person to act in another's place
20 Clues: hatred, ill-will • tireless, continuing with vigor • a very close friend, chum, buddy • to declare publicly or officially • puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic • to cause anger, irritation, or bitterness • thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren • capable of being grasped by he senses or mind • clothes, apparel, garb; to dress, adorn, or bedeck • ...
Earth 2023-02-09
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- The star that provides light and heat
- A change in the angle of the rotational axis on a rotating body (Ex. The Earth)
- Force exerted on a surface by the air above it
- Ability of surfaces to reflect sunlight
- Second innermost layer of the Earth
- Average rotation time on Earth
- radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation
- Two tectonic plates that move away from eachother
- All the water on Earth's surfaces
- Fourth layer of Earth's atmosphere that absorbs the sun's radiation
- Negatively charged subatomic particles
- Air pollution that reduces visibility
- Outermost layer on Earth
- Causes the greenhouse effect by trapping heat in the atmosphere
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- an atmosphere of a planet that did not form by accretion during the formation of the planet's star
- Closest star to the sun
- The process of plants making food
- Zone of energetic charged particles around the Earth
- Chemical that breaks down the ozone layer
- cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock, and dust that orbit the Sun
- The planet we live on
- Second planet in the solar system
- Relating to earth, an inhabitant of Earth
- A natural light display in the sky caused by interference with magnetic field lines
- Chemical compound for Ozone
25 Clues: The planet we live on • Closest star to the sun • Outermost layer on Earth • Chemical compound for Ozone • Average rotation time on Earth • The process of plants making food • Second planet in the solar system • All the water on Earth's surfaces • Second innermost layer of the Earth • The star that provides light and heat • Air pollution that reduces visibility • ...
Geology - Plate Tectonics 2023-06-06
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- Height above a given level, especially sea level.
- Layer of earth between the crust and the core.
- How deep or far down into the Earth an earthquake is occuring.
- Molten rock within Earth
- Plate boundary where plates crash together.
- The point on Earth's surface directly above where an earthquake occurred.
- Height above a given level, especially sea level.
- A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction.
- Height above a given level, especially sea level.
- Two things or events happening together or at the same time, but not causing one another.
- A fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock.
- The process where earth materials are worn away & moved by forces such as wind or water.
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- Plate boundary where plates rip apart.
- Plate boundary where one plate slides past another.
- The outermost layer of the earth
- These rocks started out as some other type of rock, but have been substantially changed from their original igneous, sedimentary, or earlier metamorphic form.
- These rocks form when hot, molten rock crystallizes and solidifies.
- The size of something.
- Innermost layer of the earth.
- A type of rock formed when layers of sediment are compressed by heavy layers of sediment above.
- The reason something has occurred or is occurring.
- Sections of bedrock in between the fault lines of cracks from earthquakes.
22 Clues: The size of something. • Molten rock within Earth • Innermost layer of the earth. • The outermost layer of the earth • Plate boundary where plates rip apart. • Plate boundary where plates crash together. • Layer of earth between the crust and the core. • Height above a given level, especially sea level. • Height above a given level, especially sea level. • ...
Unit 2 Crossword - Science 7 2025-01-31
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- type of weathering done by physical force
- plate boundary where plates collide
- type of weathering done by chemical processes
- the study of the Earth
- type of rock that went through change
- assumption that all processes on Earth developed its surface regularly and constantly
- rock formed from volcanic activity
- when broken down rock gets moved by water
- layer of Earth just underneath the lithosphere made up of molten rock
- hypothesis that all of Earth's land masses are moving
- what broken down pieces of rock get called
- the name of the man who came up with continental drift
- belief that random disasters developed Earth's surface
- type of igneous rock formed from magma cooling
- type of rock that is made up of other rocks
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- theory that all movement of Earth's crust is driven by convection in the mantle
- molten rock underground
- process of breaking up rock
- plate boundary where plates move apart
- outermost layer of Earth
- what happens to a rock when extreme heat and pressure deforms it
- molten rock above ground
- plate boundary where plates slide past each other
- when bits of crust get scraped and chipped off during plate movement
- tool for measuring earthquakes
- type of igneous rock formed from lava cooling
26 Clues: the study of the Earth • molten rock underground • outermost layer of Earth • molten rock above ground • process of breaking up rock • tool for measuring earthquakes • rock formed from volcanic activity • plate boundary where plates collide • type of rock that went through change • plate boundary where plates move apart • type of weathering done by physical force • ...
Physical Geography Terms 2025-03-25
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- When a glacier gets smaller when its rate of melt is faster than its rate of accumulation it is _________
- The surface layer of soil which is dark brown or black
- When tectonic plates move apart
- When tectonic plates slide past each other
- Calcium, phosphorous, and potassium are _____________ found in soil which are required for plant growth
- The bottom layer of soil which is solid rock
- When a glacier gets larger when its rate of melt is slower than the rate of accumulation it is _________
- Earth's rigid outer layer
- When a glacier stays the same size
- A type of rock that is formed by heat and pressure
- The increase in the average surface temperature of the earth
- A type of rock that is formed when liquid rock (magma) cools
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- The daily conditions of the atmosphere
- The middle layer of Earth which consists of molten rock (magma)
- When tectonic plates move towards
- Supercontinent
- A type of rock known as 'layered rock'
- The movement of broken down rocks
- The breaking down of rocks into sediment
- The darkest and most nutrient layer of soil
- A long-term pattern of weather
- The change in average climate conditions in a region over a long period of time
22 Clues: Supercontinent • Earth's rigid outer layer • A long-term pattern of weather • When tectonic plates move apart • When tectonic plates move towards • The movement of broken down rocks • When a glacier stays the same size • The daily conditions of the atmosphere • A type of rock known as 'layered rock' • The breaking down of rocks into sediment • ...
Unit 8 words 2025-01-15
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- to be of use or benefit to; to make use of; to take advantage of; to profit or benefit
- going in different directions; different from each other; departing from convention, deviant
- an agent; substitute; a written permission allowing one person to act in another's place
- a very close friend, pal, chum, buddy
- puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic
- to cause anger, irritation, or bitterness
- clothes, apparel, garp; (or) to dress, adorn, or bedeck
- capable of being grasped by the senses or mind
- to join at one end or be next to; support, prop up
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- tireless, continuing with vigor
- to make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out
- hatred, ill-will
- self-controlled, not showing feeling in response to pleasure or pain
- to plunge straight down; (or) a weight fastened to a line.
- a person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials, an animal that feeds on refuse or dead bodies
- to declare publicly or officially
- to pass through or gain entrance to gradually or stealthily
- thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren
- very earnest, emotional,passionate; extremely hot
- to limit, be sparing or frugal; (or) a limit or restriction; a fixed share of work or duty; a period of activity
20 Clues: hatred, ill-will • tireless, continuing with vigor • to declare publicly or officially • puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic • a very close friend, pal, chum, buddy • to cause anger, irritation, or bitterness • thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren • capable of being grasped by the senses or mind • very earnest, emotional,passionate; extremely hot • ...
AP Psyc 2025-10-15
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- Subject’s involvement in research procedures
- heuristic- Basing judgements on how mentally available information is
- A group based off the similarity of that certain topic
- fallacy- Belief that past random events affect future one
- Deviation- The measure used to quantify the amount of variations in a set
- Focusing on the human thinking process to plan and to solve problems
- A repeated step by step strategy to solve a problem
- heuristic- Judging likelihood by how well something fits a prototype
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- fixedness- Inability to see new uses for familiar objects
- Cognitive shortcut for problem-solving
- bias- Tendency to search for a source or information to confirm your already held beliefs
- set- Not changing up the way you solve a problem because it worked in the past
- Typical example representing a concept
- thinking- Targeting only one correct solution to a problem
- and error- If something is successful and if not another new method will be incorporated. You learn from mistakes using this
- fallacy- Continuous behavior of previously invested resources
- variable- The variable that’s being manipulated is being studied
- perseverance- Although the belief is wrong, you still hold onto it
- thinking- Thinking that produces many possible solutions to a problem
- study- In-depth study of one person or group
20 Clues: Cognitive shortcut for problem-solving • Typical example representing a concept • Subject’s involvement in research procedures • study- In-depth study of one person or group • A repeated step by step strategy to solve a problem • A group based off the similarity of that certain topic • fixedness- Inability to see new uses for familiar objects • ...
Plate Tectonics 2025-11-04
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- Planets thinnest layer, rocky outer layer from the top part of the lithosphere
- A thick layer of silicate rock between the crust and the outer core
- Vibrations that travel through the Earth
- The point on the Earths surface directly about the focus of an earthquake
- crust The thick less dense layer of Earth's outer shell
- Physical field produced by moving electric charges or magnetic materials
- The theory that Earths continents have moved over geologic time
- Type of fault where two plates slide horizontally past one another
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- Process by which new oceanic crust is formed at divergent plate boundaries
- Waves that cause side to side shaking
- Inner most layer of the planet
- Transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid
- The place where two or more tectonic plates meet
- Process by which one tectonic plate moved under another and sinks into the matle
- The thick less dense layer of earths outer shell
- The theory that Earths continents have moved over geologic time
- The fastest seismic waves originating from earthquakes
- The process by which a continent is pulled apart, forming a rift
- Process by which heat is directly transmitted through a substance
- The thin dense layer of earths surface that lies beneath the oceans
- Deep, narrow depression in the seafloor
21 Clues: Inner most layer of the planet • Waves that cause side to side shaking • Deep, narrow depression in the seafloor • Vibrations that travel through the Earth • Transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid • The place where two or more tectonic plates meet • The thick less dense layer of earths outer shell • The fastest seismic waves originating from earthquakes • ...
Evolution 2019-12-01
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- Timing differences are ___________
- Preserved remains of ancient organisms
- A branching diagram that shows the potential evolutionary relationship between organisms
- Organisms that mate and produce fertile offspring
- Ability to survive and reproduce successfully
- Massasauga rattlesnake and Eastern Foxsnake
- Selecting for small and large male Coho salmon during mating season
- Equilibrium Very little changes followed by short rapid bursts of change
- Competition for resources, mates. Avoiding predation and disease
- When a species disappears from the Earth
- A geographic barrier stops two populations from mating/reproducing
- Collection of all alleles for a trait within a population
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- Humans use selective breeding for desired traits in a population
- The only factor that causes adaptation to occur in a population
- Selecting for carriers of sickle cell anemia
- The Amish developed from 30 Swiss descendants
- Evolution from a common ancestor to form many different species
- The name of Darwins ship
- Closely associated species influence each others evolutionary path
- Structures with no current function
- Unrelated species in similar habitats evolve similar traits
- The Navajo population experiences a higher incidence of XP due to this.
- The only factor that introduces new alleles into a population
- Islands that Darwin visited
- Structures that are similar in different species
- Study of the earth
26 Clues: Study of the earth • The name of Darwins ship • Islands that Darwin visited • Timing differences are ___________ • Structures with no current function • Preserved remains of ancient organisms • When a species disappears from the Earth • Massasauga rattlesnake and Eastern Foxsnake • Selecting for carriers of sickle cell anemia • The Amish developed from 30 Swiss descendants • ...
