divergent Crossword Puzzles

Weathering, Erosion, Deposition 2023-12-01

Weathering, Erosion, Deposition crossword puzzle
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  1. thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
  2. a shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall
  3. scientist that studies volcanoes
  4. very small pieces of rock
  5. the liquid rock below Earth’s crust
  6. Tectonics- the theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that are always moving
  7. the boundary between two tectonic plates that are COLLIDING with each other. Divergent- the boundary between two tectonic plates moving AWAY from each other
  8. the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  9. scientist that studies earthquakes
  10. the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
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  1. measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10
  2. natural land shape or feature
  3. a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth’s surface
  4. the process of rock breaking apart
  5. the thin outer layer of Earth
  6. is the molten rock that erupts from the volcano along with ash and hot gases
  7. the layer of Earth extending from Earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle (Metallic)
  8. the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water
  9. the process of moving weathered rock from one place to another
  10. a break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side
  11. the strength of an earthquake

21 Clues: very small pieces of rock • natural land shape or feature • the thin outer layer of Earth • 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 • ...

Weathering, Erosion, Deposition 2023-12-01

Weathering, Erosion, Deposition crossword puzzle
Across
  1. thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
  2. a shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall
  3. scientist that studies volcanoes
  4. very small pieces of rock
  5. the liquid rock below Earth’s crust
  6. Tectonics- the theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that are always moving
  7. the boundary between two tectonic plates that are COLLIDING with each other. Divergent- the boundary between two tectonic plates moving AWAY from each other
  8. the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  9. scientist that studies earthquakes
  10. the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
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  1. measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10
  2. natural land shape or feature
  3. a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth’s surface
  4. the process of rock breaking apart
  5. the thin outer layer of Earth
  6. is the molten rock that erupts from the volcano along with ash and hot gases
  7. the layer of Earth extending from Earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle (Metallic)
  8. the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water
  9. the process of moving weathered rock from one place to another
  10. a break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side
  11. the strength of an earthquake

21 Clues: very small pieces of rock • natural land shape or feature • the thin outer layer of Earth • 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 • ...

Weathering and Erosion Vocabulary 2023-11-29

Weathering and Erosion Vocabulary crossword puzzle
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  1. a shaking of Earth's surface that can cause land to rise and fall
  2. is the molten rock that erupts from the volcano along with ash and hot gases
  3. the boundary between 2 tectonic plates colliding with each other
  4. the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  5. scientist that studies earthquakes
  6. the process of moving rock from one place to another
  7. the boundary between 2 tectonic plates moving away from one another
  8. tectonics the theory that the Earth's crust is divided into plates that are always moving
  9. a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth's surface
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  1. the liquid rock below Earth's crust
  2. the strength of an earthquake
  3. the process of rock breaking apart
  4. form natural land shape or feature
  5. a break in the Earth's crust where rock on one side moves in relation to the rock on the other side
  6. the dropping of weathered rock by wind or water
  7. the boundary between 2 tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
  8. the thin outer layer of Earth
  9. very small pieces of rock
  10. thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
  11. the layer of Earth extending from the Earth's center to the bottom of the mantle
  12. scale measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10
  13. scientist that studies volcanoes

22 Clues: very small pieces of rock • the strength of an earthquake • the thin outer layer of Earth • 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 • form natural land shape or feature • the dropping of weathered rock by wind or water • ...

Plate Tectonics 2024-02-08

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
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  1. a break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another
  2. properties that involve a reaction to an applied load strength, ductility, hardness, impact resistance, and toughness
  3. tectonic plates collide and form mountains.
  4. the center of the earth
  5. tectonic plates slide past each other creating earthquakes
  6. the hypothesis that states the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present location
  7. stress that occurs when the forces act to squeeze an object
  8. the only liquid layer of the planet
  9. the middle layer of the earth which is also the largest
  10. the soft plastic-like layer of the mantle
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  1. the sinking of regions of the earth's crust to lower elevations
  2. solid outer layer that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantl
  3. the nature of something's ingredients or constituents
  4. tectonic plates move apart
  5. a block of lithosphere
  6. the thin, solid, rigid outermost layer of the earth
  7. the theory that explains how large pieces of the earth's crust move and change shape
  8. the inner most layer of the earth which is solid and made out of solid iron and nickel
  9. the strong, lower parts of the mantle
  10. the process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms and magma rises toward the surface and solidifies

20 Clues: a block of lithosphere • the center of the earth • tectonic plates move apart • the only liquid layer of the planet • the strong, lower parts of the mantle • the soft plastic-like layer of the mantle • tectonic plates collide and form mountains. • the thin, solid, rigid outermost layer of the earth • the nature of something's ingredients or constituents • ...

Plate Tectonics 2024-02-08

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
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  1. a break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another
  2. properties that involve a reaction to an applied load strength, ductility, hardness, impact resistance, and toughness
  3. tectonic plates collide and form mountains.
  4. the center of the earth
  5. tectonic plates slide past each other creating earthquakes
  6. the hypothesis that states the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present location
  7. stress that occurs when the forces act to squeeze an object
  8. the only liquid layer of the planet
  9. the middle layer of the earth which is also the largest
  10. the soft plastic-like layer of the mantle
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  1. the sinking of regions of the earth's crust to lower elevations
  2. solid outer layer that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantl
  3. the nature of something's ingredients or constituents
  4. tectonic plates move apart
  5. a block of lithosphere
  6. the thin, solid, rigid outermost layer of the earth
  7. the theory that explains how large pieces of the earth's crust move and change shape
  8. the inner most layer of the earth which is solid and made out of solid iron and nickel
  9. the strong, lower parts of the mantle
  10. the process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms and magma rises toward the surface and solidifies

20 Clues: a block of lithosphere • the center of the earth • tectonic plates move apart • the only liquid layer of the planet • the strong, lower parts of the mantle • the soft plastic-like layer of the mantle • tectonic plates collide and form mountains. • the thin, solid, rigid outermost layer of the earth • the nature of something's ingredients or constituents • ...

zkovelman@jlastudents.org 2024-01-16

zkovelman@jlastudents.org crossword puzzle
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  1. Long deep ditch on the seafloor
  2. process where sediments and other materials are added together to "build"
  3. Plate boundary where two lithospheric plates collide and destroy.
  4. Rupture in the crust that has magma inside and erupts hot lava.
  5. Naturally occurring, inorganic solid substance having a specific chemical composition and characteristic crystalline structure, color, and hardness.
  6. cooled lava under the earth's surface.
  7. when the earth shakes
  8. process when bits of rock get broken down into small pieces.
  9. Crust and upper part of the mantle
  10. a type of rock made by cooled magma, which is molten rock melted from pressure and heat under earths crust.
  11. Plate bound
  12. Plate tectonics that go in opposite directions
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  1. type of volcano with deep cracks, when under tension they pull apart and lava comes out.
  2. the process when sediments turn into rocks
  3. a type of rock formed by small sediments cementing together.
  4. Upper layer of earth's mantle, below the lithosphere, very weak
  5. movement of sediments from one place to another
  6. Cracks in the earths crust
  7. the substance that comes out of volcanoes, the stage before magma cools is called...
  8. Outermost layer of the earth
  9. volcano and earthquake activity
  10. a type of rock formed by any type of existing rock, in which minerals are changed in structure of composition by pressure and heat.

22 Clues: Plate bound • when the earth shakes • Cracks in the earths crust • Outermost layer of the earth • Long deep ditch on the seafloor • volcano and earthquake activity • Crust and upper part of the mantle • cooled lava under the earth's surface. • the process when sediments turn into rocks • Plate tectonics that go in opposite directions • ...

Plate tectonics 2023-02-24

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
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  1. vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake
  2. A weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface
  3. earth's outermost layer of rock made up of both dry land and ocean floor ocean
  4. A theory stating that the earth's surface is broken into plates that move.
  5. a split, break, or breach
  6. Places where tectonic plates slide along beside one another as they move
  7. A supercontinent containing all of Earth's land that existed about 225 million years ago.
  8. The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
  9. a scientist who studies the forces that make and shape planet earth
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  1. The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations
  2. Lie beneath landmasses. Contains more silicon dioxide. Plates less dense than oceanic.
  3. North American, South American, Pacific, African, Eurasian, Indo-Australian, and Antarctica
  4. going in different directions; different from each other; departing from conversation, deviant
  5. A German scientist
  6. the edges of tectonic plates.
  7. One plate going under another plate
  8. A major belt of volcanoes that rims the
  9. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
  10. Deep valley in the ocean floor that forms along a subduction zone
  11. Thin plates that form the ocean floor; more dense than continental plates.

20 Clues: A German scientist • a split, break, or breach • the edges of tectonic plates. • One plate going under another plate • A major belt of volcanoes that rims the • A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other. • A weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface • Deep valley in the ocean floor that forms along a subduction zone • ...

APES U4 1 2024-05-08

APES U4 1 crossword puzzle
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  1. The process of new oceanic crust from upward movement of magma
  2. Fast and often unexpected movement of Earth's crust from a release of energy
  3. Theory that lithosphere is divided into plates
  4. Where molten material from the mantle reaches the lithosphere
  5. Rock formed right from magma
  6. Crack that is in cooling rock
  7. Layer of Earth composed of semi-molten rock
  8. The outermost layer of the lithosphere
  9. Plate boundary where tectonic plates move towards each other
  10. Landform that ejects molten lava
  11. Type of rock that forms from cooled magma underground
  12. Outermost layer of Earth
  13. Activity the level of and amount of Earthquakes in a period of time
  14. The constant formation, change and destruction of rock material
  15. Process of one crustal plate passing under another
  16. Plate boundary where tectonic plates move away from each other
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  1. Layer of Earth that contains magma
  2. Type of rock that forms from cooled magma above ground
  3. Fracture in rock from movement of Earth's crust
  4. Molten rock
  5. Plate boundary where tectonic plates move sideways past each other
  6. Zone of Earth's interior composed mostly of iron and nickel
  7. Base-10 logarithmic scale measuring Earthquake intensity
  8. Processes that make and break down lithosphere
  9. Waves caused from seismic activity underseas
  10. Point on Earth's surface above the location where the rock ruptures in Earthquake

26 Clues: Molten rock • Outermost layer of Earth • Rock formed right from magma • Crack that is in cooling rock • Landform that ejects molten lava • Layer of Earth that contains magma • The outermost layer of the lithosphere • Layer of Earth composed of semi-molten rock • Waves caused from seismic activity underseas • Theory that lithosphere is divided into plates • ...

Tone Words 2024-05-03

Tone Words crossword puzzle
Across
  1. means silly, looks like a friendly dolphin
  2. means serious, rhymes with tire
  3. means unsure, looks like a verb
  4. means rude, looks like it smells fishy
  5. means admiring, sounds like a party
  6. means positive, looks like you could do me one
  7. means happy, sounds like a Zendaya show
  8. means hateful,
  9. means sad, looks sort of like a hat
  10. means mean, looks devilish
  11. means smart, sounds like a Divergent faction
  12. means embarrassed, has a smile
  13. means confused, has a color in it
  14. means cocky, sounds like Equality's society
  15. means full of thoughts, looks related to a mirror
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  1. means sorry, looks like you owe me one
  2. means disbelieving, looks like a journey
  3. means superior, rhymes with Santa's list
  4. means remembering the past, first part is from me, dog
  5. means funny, rhymes with one under a bridge
  6. means nice, looks like a singular people
  7. means shy, looks like it doesn't belong
  8. means peaceful, looks like an instrument
  9. means direct, sounds like a boy's name
  10. means negative, looks like an enemy
  11. means angry, has an angry word inside of it
  12. means afraid, looks like a dog or a cat
  13. means nervous, looks like it would taste like a rainbow
  14. means unclear, looks like election time
  15. means don't care, middle part looks sore

30 Clues: means hateful, • means mean, looks devilish • means embarrassed, has a smile • means serious, rhymes with tire • means unsure, looks like a verb • means confused, has a color in it • means admiring, sounds like a party • means negative, looks like an enemy • means sad, looks sort of like a hat • means sorry, looks like you owe me one • means rude, looks like it smells fishy • ...

Calculus Crossword 2023-06-06

Calculus Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. an infinite series without a finite limit
  2. a taylor series centered around zero
  3. type of comparison test which uses another easier series
  4. all the terms of an infinite sequenceadded together
  5. test for which series must be continuous, decreasing, and differentiable
  6. formula that expresses the derivative of the composition of two differentiable functions
  7. found by finding the zeros of the derivative
  8. abbreviation for formula for the slopes of tangent lines
  9. integration by substitution,he counterpart to the chain rule for differentiation
  10. a first-order numerical procedure for solving ordinary differential equations with a given initial value
  11. the rate of change of a quantity y with respect to another quantity x
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  1. the derivative of velocity
  2. approximations of the area under a curve
  3. finding a rate at which a quantity changes by relating that quantity to other quantities whose rates of change are known
  4. a theorem which states there is at least one point at which the tangent to the arc is parallel to the secant through its endpoints
  5. used to find the volume of a shape that is obtained by rotating two functions around an axis
  6. places where derivative is zero or undefined
  7. test used to find ratio of convergence
  8. the value that a function approaches as the input approaches some value
  9. the derivative of position

20 Clues: the derivative of velocity • the derivative of position • a taylor series centered around zero • test used to find ratio of convergence • approximations of the area under a curve • an infinite series without a finite limit • places where derivative is zero or undefined • found by finding the zeros of the derivative • all the terms of an infinite sequenceadded together • ...

NJSLA Science Crossword Review 2023-05-01

NJSLA Science Crossword Review crossword puzzle
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  1. The variations of a trait we may inherit.
  2. Increases with mass and speed.
  3. The physical appearance of an organism.
  4. Density, color, hardness, solubility. Do not change with size, shape, amount.
  5. The nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
  6. Thermal Energy is transferred by two objects touching.
  7. The boundary where two plates collide.
  8. Arrows showing energy passed from one organism to another.
  9. The movement of nanoscopic particles - increases with temperature.
  10. An organism that makes its own food from the sun, soil, air.
  11. When water vapor cools back to a liquid.
  12. The variable that is measured/studied in a lab..
  13. The boundary when two plates drift apart.
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  1. When water changes from liquid to gas.
  2. Asexual reproduction does not lead to this, but sexual rep. does.
  3. Occurs under the sea, where parting plates allow new earth to form.
  4. The circular movement of air, molten rock, and water. Hot rises, cool falls.
  5. Stored energy.
  6. The variables that we keep constant, so that there is only one independent variable in a lab.
  7. A property: temp. at which solid changes to liquid.
  8. This type of volcano makes up the Hawaiian Islands.
  9. When a denser tectonic plate sinks beneath a less dense one.
  10. The variable we intentionally change in a lab.
  11. Sperm, eggs. Cells used by organisms (like flowers) to reproduce.
  12. The two letters representing an allele for each trait.

25 Clues: Stored energy. • Increases with mass and speed. • The nonliving parts of an ecosystem. • When water changes from liquid to gas. • The boundary where two plates collide. • The physical appearance of an organism. • When water vapor cools back to a liquid. • The variations of a trait we may inherit. • The boundary when two plates drift apart. • ...

Unit 9 Vocab 2023-04-19

Unit 9 Vocab crossword puzzle
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  1. pockets ecosystems at the bottom of the ocean near divergent plate boundaries
  2. relationship between a plant and a fungus
  3. populations become so large they aren't able to be supported by ecosystems
  4. water ecosystems
  5. species that evolve and are only found in one isolated geographic location
  6. key organisms in an ecosystem that helps stabilize/maintain the ecosystem
  7. predictable changes in an ecosystem as itprogresses from pioneer species on bare rock to a mature climax community
  8. mature form of an ecosystem
  9. clearing forested land and repurposing it for non forest use like agriculture/urban development
  10. non native species in a community
  11. introduction of harmful materials into the environment
  12. long term changes in average global temp. causes changes in weather patterns
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  1. land ecosystems
  2. predictable changes in an ecosystem after a disturbance as it progresses towards reestablishing a mature climax community
  3. biomes where fresh and salt water meet
  4. measurement of the variety and richness of an ecosystem
  5. Collection of ecosystems characterized with similar temperatures, rainfall totals, and climax communities
  6. first species to invade/populate an area
  7. no two species can occupy the same niche in an ecosystem
  8. doesn't have sunlight and unable to support photosynthesis
  9. sunlight penetrates and supports photosynthesis
  10. visual representation of the feeding interactions in ecosystems

22 Clues: land ecosystems • water ecosystems • mature form of an ecosystem • non native species in a community • biomes where fresh and salt water meet • first species to invade/populate an area • relationship between a plant and a fungus • sunlight penetrates and supports photosynthesis • introduction of harmful materials into the environment • ...

Evolution Vocabulary 2022-04-27

Evolution Vocabulary crossword puzzle
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  1. A change over time in the genetic composition of a population (change in allele frequency) that occurs through random mutations and non-random natural selection
  2. tree a branching diagram showing the inferred evolutionary relationships among species
  3. Mass extinctions/repopulations explain changes in fossil record
  4. Evolution where different organisms that share similar habitats become more alike
  5. Measure of organism's reproductive success (greater number of offspring that carry your genes)
  6. Similar developmental patterns seen in all vertebrates
  7. Study of the distribution of organisms
  8. Preserved remains of once-living organisms
  9. Characteristic that helps an organism be more suited to its environment/survive and reproduce
  10. Nature provides differences; humans choose useful traits
  11. Occurs when previous adaptations are no longer suitable to a changed environment
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  1. Evolution where closely related species become different as they move into new environments
  2. Science of grouping and naming organisms
  3. Body parts with similar structure but not necessarily same function
  4. Organisms have descended from a common ancestor
  5. Broad explanation that can be used to make predictions and generate new hypotheses
  6. Geological processes that have shaped Earth over millions of years and are still happening
  7. Remnants of structures that had functions in ancestors
  8. the within-species phenotypic variation caused by spontaneously arising mutations that have been maintained in nature by any evolutionary process including, among others, artificial and natural selection
  9. Different structures with similar function in different species

20 Clues: Study of the distribution of organisms • Science of grouping and naming organisms • Preserved remains of once-living organisms • Organisms have descended from a common ancestor • Remnants of structures that had functions in ancestors • Similar developmental patterns seen in all vertebrates • Nature provides differences; humans choose useful traits • ...

Unit 7B- part 2 2023-09-06

Unit 7B- part 2 crossword puzzle
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  1. fossils found in ___ layers are more similar to each other than fossils found in layers above/below them
  2. the geographical distribution of organisms
  3. study of embryo development
  4. true or false- fossils have been found deep in the rock strata that resemble organisms alive today
  5. Darwin believed that evolution is a very ____ (fasts/slow) process that it cannot be observed
  6. ____ equilibrium- occurs when organisms change very quickly due to new niches opening up, or an organism becomes isolated
  7. event in which all of a species ceases to exist
  8. because of similar selection pressures, different organisms evolved ____ features
  9. organs that are remnants of a previous ancestor and serve no function in the current organism
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  1. there have been ____ mass extinctions according to evolution
  2. ___ evolution occurs when two closely related species become more dissimilar over time
  3. ____ evolution is when two unrelated organisms evolve the same
  4. ____ fossils have features that are intermediate of the organisms that came before and after them
  5. all green plants have the same type of ____- evidence that they all came from a common plant ancestor
  6. body parts that are similar in structure but different in function
  7. occurs when two organisms evolve together
  8. ___ extinctions are due to natural selection
  9. ____ radiation is the sudden appearance of many new organisms
  10. ___ teeth are a vestigial organ in humans
  11. ___ extinctions are due to a catastrophic event (meteor)

20 Clues: study of embryo development • occurs when two organisms evolve together • ___ teeth are a vestigial organ in humans • the geographical distribution of organisms • ___ extinctions are due to natural selection • event in which all of a species ceases to exist • ___ extinctions are due to a catastrophic event (meteor) • ...

GeoScience puzzle Both Earth and solar system 2023-05-25

GeoScience puzzle Both Earth and solar system crossword puzzle
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  1. A planet being the 7th in the solar system and being known for its Name
  2. Earth's "Natural Satellite" Also being seen whenever the sun goes down
  3. When water Has a strong current and starts CARVING the land so it goes out faster
  4. 3rd planet from the sun where it is the only planet known to be habitable
  5. A planet that was Demoted to a dwarf planet due to its size
  6. A Planet with a large ring made of Dust and particles
  7. The Closest planet to the sun
  8. Crushed rocks and minerals made into layers of the earth
  9. When a rock is damaged by Either rain or ocean current it is considered what?
  10. The fault being when the 2 faults slide past each other
  11. A Type of fault that is made when the 2 faults cause tension between each other
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  1. Mostly A rock made when it is Compressed and cooled
  2. A large wave that can cause devastating changes
  3. When 2 faults Collide into eachother making compression
  4. A rock made from volcanic material
  5. Largest planet in the solar system
  6. A material launched from volcano's that create a large cloud of Ash
  7. 2nd planet from the sun and also the hottest
  8. When wind becomes too powerful and becomes disastrous being able to tear the material off houses
  9. A natural disaster which makes the earth shake

20 Clues: The Closest planet to the sun • A rock made from volcanic material • Largest planet in the solar system • 2nd planet from the sun and also the hottest • A natural disaster which makes the earth shake • A large wave that can cause devastating changes • Mostly A rock made when it is Compressed and cooled • A Planet with a large ring made of Dust and particles • ...

Tectonic Plates 2025-02-10

Tectonic Plates crossword puzzle
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  1. Boundary Also known as spreading boundary
  2. A crack or fracture in Earth's crust where two tectonic plates grind past each other in a horizontal direction.
  3. the solid outer part of Earth that includes the crust and upper mantle.
  4. spot is formed when very hot rock rises from the mantle and erupts through Earth’s crust.
  5. Crust A layer of the earth's crust that lies under the seven continents.
  6. melted rock beneath Earth’s surface.
  7. Zone The place where a collision between two continental plates crunches and folds the rocks at the boundary, lifting them up and leading to mountain formation.
  8. melted rock on Earth’s surface.
  9. a straight line of travel where data is being collected.
  10. The border between two tectonic plates.
  11. the layer of Earth between the core and the crust
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  1. A trembling and shaking of the earth's surface resulting from the sudden release of energy in the crust.
  2. Boundary occurs where two land masses on plates are pushed together.
  3. a slowly flowing layer of solid and melted rock formed by heat and pressure;
  4. plate a large piece of the lithosphere that floats
  5. moves on the asthenosphere.
  6. the outermost layer of Earth.
  7. Boundary occurs where two plates slide against each other.
  8. Boundary Also known as subduction boundary
  9. boundary an area where two or more tectonic plates meet.
  10. trench a long, narrow, deep area on the ocean floor

21 Clues: moves on the asthenosphere. • the outermost layer of Earth. • melted rock on Earth’s surface. • melted rock beneath Earth’s surface. • The border between two tectonic plates. • Boundary Also known as spreading boundary • Boundary Also known as subduction boundary • the layer of Earth between the core and the crust • plate a large piece of the lithosphere that floats • ...

Exam 1 Fun 2025-02-10

Exam 1 Fun crossword puzzle
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  1. Bladder dysfunction due to neurologic damage
  2. Lack of coordination not due to weakness
  3. Crossing of nerve fibers from one side to the other
  4. Awareness of body position and movement
  5. Site where neurons communicate
  6. – Sensory pathway that transmits slow, aching pain
  7. Inability to control the range of movement
  8. Man's best friend
  9. Pathway that carries information away from the brain
  10. Substance that insulates nerve fibers for faster signal transmission
  11. Ability to identify objects by touch
  12. Brain structure that coordinates movement and balance
  13. Velocity dependent increase in muscle tone
  14. – Bundle of sensory fibers in the brainstem
  15. Tract that carries pain and temperature sensations
  16. Clusters of nerve cell bodies in the PNS
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  1. Sensory process that detects pain
  2. Complete lack of muscle resistance
  3. Pathway that carries information toward the brain
  4. Outer layer of the brain involved in higher-level functions
  5. Loop involved in bladder control pathways
  6. Medication that reduces muscle spasticity
  7. Abnormally high resistance to passive stretch
  8. Major motor tract for voluntary movement
  9. Inability to identify an object by touch
  10. System responsible for balance and spatial orientation
  11. Automatic response to a stimulus
  12. Temporary loss of consciousness due to reduced blood flow
  13. Tract involved in postural control and gross limb movement
  14. Abnormally low resistance to passive stretch
  15. Tract involved in reflexive head and eye movements

31 Clues: Man's best friend • Site where neurons communicate • Automatic response to a stimulus • Sensory process that detects pain • Complete lack of muscle resistance • Ability to identify objects by touch • Awareness of body position and movement • Lack of coordination not due to weakness • Major motor tract for voluntary movement • Inability to identify an object by touch • ...

Week 4 Vocab 2025-02-26

Week 4 Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a very close friend, chum, buddy
  2. to join at one end or be next to; to support, prop up
  3. a person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials; an animal that feeds on refuse or dead bodies
  4. to be of use or benefit to; to make use of; to take advantage of; to profit or benefit; (n.) use, benefit, or value
  5. to make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out
  6. to pass through or gain entrance to gradually or stealthily
  7. to cause anger, irritation, or bitterness (with the suggestion that the pain grows worse with time)
  8. limit, be sparing or frugal; (n.) a limit or restriction; a fixed share of work or duty; a period of activity
  9. an agent, substitute; a written permission allowing one person to act in another's place
  10. to plunge straight down; (n.) a weight fastened to a line
  11. capable, of being grasped by the senses or mind
Down
  1. puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic
  2. clothes, apparel, garb; (v.) to dress, adorn, or bedeck
  3. hatred, ill-will
  4. going in different directions; different from each other; departing from convention
  5. tireless, continuing with vigor
  6. very earnest, emotional, passionate, extremely hot
  7. to declare publicly or officially
  8. thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren
  9. self-controlled, not showing feeling in response to pleasure or pain

20 Clues: hatred, ill-will • tireless, continuing with vigor • a very close friend, chum, buddy • to declare publicly or officially • puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic • thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren • capable, of being grasped by the senses or mind • very earnest, emotional, passionate, extremely hot • to make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out • ...

Tectonic Crossword 2025-10-03

Tectonic Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Number of major (Continental) plates.
  2. A crack in the Earth's crust where movement has occurred, mostly at plate boundaries.
  3. These plates slide horizontally past each other.
  4. Lines where two or more tectonic plates meet.
  5. These types of plates move together and collide, typically forcing one plate underneath the other.
  6. Number of minor plates.
  7. The process in which one plate slides underneath the other plate at Convergent boundaries.
  8. A large landform typically created when tectonic plates push together and force land upwards.
  9. (Partially) Molten rock found under the Earth's surface.
  10. Outermost layer of the planet.
  11. Large slabs of rock in the Earth's lithosphere are classified as Tectonic ________.
  12. These types of plates move away from each other creating a spreading center.
Down
  1. Hottest and most center most layer of the earth.
  2. Area on Earth that is above an abnormally hot region of the mantle.
  3. Outer part of Earth that consists of the crust and tectonic plates.
  4. Opening in the Earth, usually in the form of a mountain, where magma and gasses escape to the surface through eruptions and flows.
  5. The _____________ drift theory suggests Earth's continents were joined before they drifted apart.
  6. A mostly solid layer of rock located between the Earth's crust and it's core.
  7. A supercontinent that is said to have existed millions of years ago and was comprised of every continent.
  8. The earth has several _________ plates.

20 Clues: Number of minor plates. • Outermost layer of the planet. • Number of major (Continental) plates. • The earth has several _________ plates. • Lines where two or more tectonic plates meet. • Hottest and most center most layer of the earth. • These plates slide horizontally past each other. • (Partially) Molten rock found under the Earth's surface. • ...

plate tectonics 2026-03-12

plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A string of volcanoes that form as the result of subduction of one oceanic plate beneath another.
  2. A deep depression in the ocean floor caused by subduction.
  3. Wegener's hypothesis that continents slowly move across Earth's surface.
  4. The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
  5. The semi-fluid layer of the mantle that tectonic plates move on.
  6. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
  7. A deep valley that forms where two continental plates move apart.
  8. An area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust above it (e.g., Hawaii).
  9. Molten rock that reaches the Earth's surface.
  10. The name of the supercontinent that existed 250 million years ago
Down
  1. An underwater mountain range formed by plate tectonics.
  2. Molten rock beneath the Earth's surface.
  3. The process of one plate sinking beneath another into the mantle.
  4. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
  5. The point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus.
  6. The transfer of heat by the movement of fluid (driving force of plate motion).
  7. The process that creates new oceanic crust at mid-ocean ridges.
  8. A plate boundary where two plates slide past each other horizontally.
  9. Large ocean waves often triggered by underwater earthquakes.
  10. A break in the Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other.

20 Clues: Molten rock beneath the Earth's surface. • Molten rock that reaches the Earth's surface. • An underwater mountain range formed by plate tectonics. • A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other. • A deep depression in the ocean floor caused by subduction. • A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other. • ...

Tectonic Hazards Part 1 2026-01-28

Tectonic Hazards Part 1 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The point inside the Earth where an earthquake begins
  2. A plate boundary where plates slide past each other
  3. The rigid outer layer made up of the crust and upper mantle
  4. A volcanic mudflow made from ash and water
  5. A steep-sided volcano formed by layers of ash and lava
  6. This is a small, steep volcano formed from ash and volcanic fragments
  7. The semi-molten layer beneath the crust where convection currents occur
  8. Fragments of rock and ash thrown out during a volcanic eruption
Down
  1. The point on the Earth’s surface directly above the earthquake focus
  2. A volcano with gentle slopes and low-viscosity lava
  3. A volcano that is not currently erupting but may erupt again
  4. An opening in the Earth’s crust through which magma escapes
  5. Molten rock beneath the Earth’s surface
  6. Harmful gases released during a volcanic eruption are said to be this
  7. Waves of energy released during an earthquake
  8. A plate boundary where plates move towards each other and subduction occurs
  9. The solid centre of the Earth made mainly of iron and nickel
  10. This type of flow is fast-moving, extremely hot flow of gas, ash and rock
  11. Molten rock that flows on the Earth’s surface
  12. A plate boundary where tectonic plates move apart
  13. A scale that measures earthquake magnitude based on energy released

21 Clues: Molten rock beneath the Earth’s surface • A volcanic mudflow made from ash and water • Waves of energy released during an earthquake • Molten rock that flows on the Earth’s surface • A plate boundary where tectonic plates move apart • A volcano with gentle slopes and low-viscosity lava • A plate boundary where plates slide past each other • ...

OOUIL Crossword 2026-04-02

OOUIL Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the person Cooper is secretly dating
  2. the name of Nate's lizard
  3. the sister who has relationship troubles
  4. the principal's name
  5. Simon's closest friend
  6. nickname of Cooper's grandmother
  7. Nate's ___ was at the door after being gone for years
  8. mc who sold drugs
  9. the job Jake had at Simon's funeral
  10. name of Simon's gossip site
  11. the movie Bronwyn made Nate watch against his will
  12. the hobby that Bronywn showed Nate
  13. the class where tests were stolen
  14. name of Bronwyn's lawyer
  15. mc who is accused of steroids
  16. the sport that Cooper plays
  17. the legal group that advocates for those without lawyers
  18. how Addy felt after talking to Jake again
Down
  1. the other site Simon frequently used
  2. the poem read at Simon's funeral
  3. character who died from peanut oil
  4. the name of your English teacher until May
  5. tool that the nurse did not have
  6. what Addy got rid of
  7. mc who cheated on a class
  8. mc who cheated on boyfriend (full name)
  9. teacher with the anti-phone policy
  10. character that gained access to the gossip site
  11. name of Ashton's husband
  12. the hobby that Addy started
  13. the sport that Jake plays
  14. Addy's mother's current partner
  15. the city where the story happens

33 Clues: mc who sold drugs • what Addy got rid of • the principal's name • Simon's closest friend • name of Ashton's husband • name of Bronwyn's lawyer • the name of Nate's lizard • mc who cheated on a class • the sport that Jake plays • name of Simon's gossip site • the hobby that Addy started • the sport that Cooper plays • mc who is accused of steroids • Addy's mother's current partner • ...

Vocabulary 1-4 Crossword! 2013-03-03

Vocabulary 1-4 Crossword! crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Very opinionated
  2. To approach formally, to confirm or verify
  3. Assemble, gather or put together
  4. To appease or to moderate, to make or become less harsh
  5. To provide written evidence
  6. Questionable, filled with doubt
  7. Teachings in general
  8. Sparing in eating and drinking
  9. To set apart
  10. To fill up, add to or complete
  11. Mental calmness
  12. To forbid by authority
  13. Differing, taking separate paths, beginning and going in different directions
  14. To recognize
  15. To applaud
  16. To rise from, to come out into view
  17. Easy to approach
  18. Pride and arrogance
  19. Theoretical, not concrete, difficult to understand
  20. Stingy and mean
  21. Easily deceived
  22. One who believes that pleasure is the soul aim in life
Down
  1. Obstruct, block, hinder, delay
  2. To disagree with
  3. Exchange of buying or selling commodities
  4. Ready to believe
  5. Deceit, duplicity, cunning
  6. To admit to be true
  7. Companion or contrast, placing side by side
  8. Readiness to yield, conformity in fulfilling requirements
  9. Preoccupation with physical comforts or things
  10. Systematic, arranged with a method of order
  11. A great commotion or conflict
  12. Ill humored or sullen
  13. Thorough
  14. To scatter about or spread
  15. Excessively careful, obsessed with details
  16. Sturdy, brave, robust, able to stand in adverse condition
  17. Obscure or difficult to understand
  18. Condense or shorten

40 Clues: Thorough • To applaud • To set apart • To recognize • Mental calmness • Stingy and mean • Easily deceived • To disagree with • Very opinionated • Ready to believe • Easy to approach • To admit to be true • Pride and arrogance • Condense or shorten • Teachings in general • Ill humored or sullen • To forbid by authority • Deceit, duplicity, cunning • To scatter about or spread • To provide written evidence • ...

A Whole Lot of Shaking Going On 2014-04-22

A Whole Lot of Shaking Going On crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Study of seismic waves generated by earthquakes
  2. Zones commonly found in Japan and Aleutians
  3. Introduced a physics based measure of earthquake size
  4. Boundaries where fault lines slide past each other
  5. Ridge where crustal plates are spread apart
  6. Proposed an 'elastic rebound' theory for the origin of earthquakes
  7. The measurement of the intensity of an earthquake
  8. Builds the first time recording seismograph
  9. Plates are spreading apart
  10. A single landmass
  11. Discovered the earth's solid inner core in 1936
  12. Irish engineer that studied earthquake damage in Naples
Down
  1. Identifies velocity boundary between earth's crust and mantle
  2. Published the first travel-time tables for earthquakes
  3. Instruments used to measure the intensity of an earthquake
  4. A scientific theory that describes the large scale motion of the Earth's lithosphere
  5. Due to the gravitational force the Moon and Sun exert on the crust of the Earth
  6. Plate motion driven by local convection currents that exert a downward pull on plates in subduction zones at ocean trenches.
  7. Plate motion driven by friction between the convection currents in the asthenosphere and the more rigid overlying lithosphere.
  8. The result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves.
  9. Identified P-, S- and surface waves in earthquake records
  10. Developed first seismometer
  11. Developed first electromagnetic seismograph
  12. The line of intersection between the fault plane and the Earth's surface

24 Clues: A single landmass • Plates are spreading apart • Developed first seismometer • Zones commonly found in Japan and Aleutians • Ridge where crustal plates are spread apart • Builds the first time recording seismograph • Developed first electromagnetic seismograph • Study of seismic waves generated by earthquakes • Discovered the earth's solid inner core in 1936 • ...

ENGLISH 11 Mid-Term Examination 2014-07-14

ENGLISH 11 Mid-Term Examination crossword puzzle
Across
  1. These are key points from texts
  2. Contains books such as dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs and the like
  3. This section contains collection of all books written by Filipino authors
  4. A note taking technique popularized by Brown and Miller (3pts)
  5. Lbs.
  6. Countryside
  7. It hovers about personal complacencies and humiliations (3pts)
  8. He identified and distinguished two kinds of thinking (3pts)
  9. Clipping of the word microphone
  10. Conflagration
  11. It does not have its own chest of drawers
  12. Reflecting with _____ if you do not want to care only about what you think (3pts)
  13. A shelf of cook books and recipes maintained by a housewife
  14. It is a creative, insightful and unpredictable thinking
  15. It is a map of words where one main word is put up at the center
  16. p__f___bl_
  17. A form of critical thinking that is active, persistent, and careful
Down
  1. Elucidate
  2. Ltd.
  3. Pre_____
  4. A purposeful mental activity over which we exercise some control
  5. The process of finding good reasons to justify routine beliefs
  6. Bour____s__ (3pts)
  7. Ren___v__s
  8. Popularized by Hanson and Martel
  9. Domicile
  10. He popularized the Decimal Classification
  11. Refers you from one subject heading to another
  12. The key to the entire collection of a university library (3pts)
  13. foks-vey-gen (3pts)
  14. A publication containing astronomical and meteorological facts (3pts)

31 Clues: Ltd. • Lbs. • Pre_____ • Domicile • Elucidate • Ren___v__s • p__f___bl_ • Countryside • Conflagration • Bour____s__ (3pts) • foks-vey-gen (3pts) • These are key points from texts • Clipping of the word microphone • Popularized by Hanson and Martel • He popularized the Decimal Classification • It does not have its own chest of drawers • Refers you from one subject heading to another • ...

Plate Tectonics 2018-02-12

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Innermost part of a core
  2. Earth's surface is divided into large pieces of rigid rock which move over Earth's hot and semi-plastic mantle
  3. The person who proposed that continents move
  4. The boundary between two plates that move toward each other
  5. Happens at subduction zones where one plate is pulled down into the mantle
  6. Supercontinent
  7. When one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate
  8. The process by which new oceanic crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge and older oceanic crust moves away from the ridge
  9. Heat is higher up, cold sinks
  10. Second to last layer of the Earth
Down
  1. When magnetized objects orient themselves to point north
  2. Part of the Earth between the core and the crust
  3. When magnetized objects reverse direction and orient themselves to point south
  4. Hypothesis which suggests that the continents are in constant motion
  5. Mountain range on the ocean floor, formed by magma at divergent plate boundaries
  6. An event that causes a magnetic field to reverse direction
  7. The boundary between two plates that slide past each other
  8. The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle
  9. The process that results when magma rises at a mid-ocean ridge and pushes oceanic plates in two different directions away from the ridge
  10. Outermost layer of a planet

20 Clues: Supercontinent • Innermost part of a core • Outermost layer of a planet • Heat is higher up, cold sinks • Second to last layer of the Earth • The person who proposed that continents move • Part of the Earth between the core and the crust • When magnetized objects orient themselves to point north • An event that causes a magnetic field to reverse direction • ...

Earth Science Chapter 6 EARTHQUAKE! 2020-02-06

Earth Science Chapter 6 EARTHQUAKE! crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a crack in a rock layer
  2. the last wave to arrive at the seismic station; also called a surface wave
  3. a force that builds in strength and intensity before an earthquake occurs
  4. the area between tectonic plates that are moving toward or into each other
  5. forces acting on an object in different or opposing directions
  6. a force in liquids that allows certain substances to float
  7. a contact force that squeezes or crushes an object
  8. the area between two tectonic plates which are sliding past each other parallel to the fault
  9. the point on the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  10. the secondary, or slower moving wave generated by an earthquake
Down
  1. the primary, or fastest wave generated by the earthquake
  2. the area between tectonic plates which are moving away from each other
  3. an instrument that detect movements of the earth
  4. the scale which rates the intensity of an earthquake's magnitude
  5. the study of earthquakes and the waves they generate
  6. the origin of an earthquake located deep within the earth
  7. any number of seismic waves that travel on and through the earth
  8. a crack in a rock layer along which there has been movement
  9. a large tidal wave generated by an earthquake in the ocean or along the shore
  10. a contact force that stretches or pulls an object apart

20 Clues: a crack in a rock layer • an instrument that detect movements of the earth • a contact force that squeezes or crushes an object • the study of earthquakes and the waves they generate • a contact force that stretches or pulls an object apart • the primary, or fastest wave generated by the earthquake • the origin of an earthquake located deep within the earth • ...

Plate Tectonics 2021-01-13

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the type of stress that occurs when an object is squeezed
  2. The third layer of earth, under the mantle
  3. When oceanic crust sinks below continental crust
  4. the theory that the Earth's crust is split up into pieces that move around on top of the mantle
  5. When two tectonic plates move past each other.
  6. When two tectonic plates spread apart
  7. A fault in which the hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall.
  8. A fault in which the hanging wall moves up relative to the footwall
  9. the type of stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object
  10. The part of the mantle which parts of the lithosphere move.
  11. The Core of earth, The fourth layer.
  12. the bending of rock layers due to stress in the Earth's crust
  13. When two tectonic plates collide.
Down
  1. The theory that continents can drift apart from one another and have in the past.
  2. The top layer of earth, where we live.
  3. The outermost, layer of the Earth that has the crust and also the upper part of the mantle.
  4. A break in the Earth's crust along which two blocks of the crust slide.
  5. The amount of force/pressure put on a certain material.
  6. The lower part of the mantle between the asthenosphere and the outer core.
  7. When two fault pieces move past eachother.
  8. The second layer of earth, under the crust

21 Clues: When two tectonic plates collide. • The Core of earth, The fourth layer. • When two tectonic plates spread apart • The top layer of earth, where we live. • The third layer of earth, under the mantle • When two fault pieces move past eachother. • The second layer of earth, under the crust • When two tectonic plates move past each other. • ...

idp 2020-12-16

idp crossword puzzle
Across
  1. body language or facial expressions
  2. knowledge that is clear cut and factual
  3. assessment ongoing as learned directed
  4. what do we really want to know?
  5. understanding who we are and why is a lifelong process.
  6. type of learner who prefers to learn by doing.
  7. is a situation in which some facets of reality are present but students are in a safe workplace.
  8. two or more thing happening at the same time.
  9. practical knowledge is the understanding of ourselves others and the social norms .
  10. learner who prefers to hear information rather than seeing or reading.
  11. one of the most important strategies in adult education.
  12. a tool used to help instructors and students with assignment evaluations.
Down
  1. things can only get better when we listen to feedback
  2. are formalized discussions in which teams argue for or against a particular point of view.
  3. first level of Bloom's taxonomy.
  4. adult learning involve a meta or skills based process.
  5. being our genuine self as opposed to playing a role.
  6. is a specialized form of communication that has learning as its goal.
  7. field trip to jog everyone out of the routine of the classroom
  8. assessment at the end of lesson right or wrong
  9. learner who prefers to see information and visualize the connections between ideas.
  10. a question allowing students to think of multiple possible answers.

22 Clues: what do we really want to know? • first level of Bloom's taxonomy. • body language or facial expressions • assessment ongoing as learned directed • knowledge that is clear cut and factual • two or more thing happening at the same time. • assessment at the end of lesson right or wrong • type of learner who prefers to learn by doing. • ...

Tectonic Plates 2017-05-10

Tectonic Plates crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the theory that the landmasses move s called the theory of continental _____
  2. one example of evidence used to prove the movement of the Earth's crust
  3. the type of plate boundary where the plates are moving away from each other
  4. the largest layer of the Earth, and the layer that contains convection currents
  5. the type of plate boundary where plates slide along each other
  6. an earthquake underneath water can create this destructive wave
  7. the type of plate boundary that caused the rise of the Himalaya Mountain Range
  8. the material that the Earth's core is mostly made up of
  9. these formations can be found along plate boundaries
  10. the largest planet in the solar system
Down
  1. the thinnest layer of the Earth
  2. the movement of warmer and cooler rock in the mantle is called _______ currents
  3. the hottest layer of the Earth. Almost made of pure solid iron
  4. the name of the largest pieces of the Earth's crust
  5. the third planet from the Sun
  6. these events are mostly found near plate boundaries
  7. the last four planets are made of this material
  8. the name of the ocean created from diverging plate boundaries
  9. the layer of the Earth that create's the Earth's magnetic fields
  10. the Earth is approximately 4.5 __________ years old
  11. the first four planets are made of this material

21 Clues: the third planet from the Sun • the thinnest layer of the Earth • the largest planet in the solar system • the last four planets are made of this material • the first four planets are made of this material • the name of the largest pieces of the Earth's crust • these events are mostly found near plate boundaries • the Earth is approximately 4.5 __________ years old • ...

창현고1_121~148 2018-10-06

창현고1_121~148 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. lasting for a limited time
  2. to reduce in size, importance, or effectiveness
  3. an attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or toward a particular object
  4. to convey from one person, place, or situation to another
  5. to carry out; to do
  6. not given deserved recognition or thanks
  7. something that inevitably follows an antecedent (such as a cause or agent)
  8. a confidence and satisfaction in oneself
  9. an original or official paper relied on as the basis, proof, or support of something
  10. inclined to criticize severely and unfavorably; of, relating to, or being a turning point or specially important juncture
  11. to recognize the rights, authority, or status of
  12. moving or extending in different directions from a common point
  13. something invented by the imagination or feigned
  14. exceeding the ordinary, usual, or expected
Down
  1. deficient in moisture
  2. a plan for the coordination of resources and expenditures
  3. to attain awareness or understanding of
  4. something that produces good or helpful results or effects
  5. evident; easily discovered, seen, or understood
  6. performance of executive duties
  7. causing fear
  8. delicate; elusive
  9. the people with common interests living in a particular area
  10. tending to move toward one point or to approach each other
  11. excluding others from participation
  12. having reason or understanding
  13. a period of dryness especially when prolonged
  14. the act of relying : the state of being reliant

28 Clues: causing fear • delicate; elusive • to carry out; to do • deficient in moisture • lasting for a limited time • having reason or understanding • performance of executive duties • excluding others from participation • to attain awareness or understanding of • not given deserved recognition or thanks • a confidence and satisfaction in oneself • ...

Chapter 9 2018-12-08

Chapter 9 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A vent in Earth's crust through which melted-or molten-rock flows.
  2. Cause particles in the ground to move up and down in a rolling motion.
  3. Cause particles in the ground to move in a push-pull motion similar to a coiled spring.
  4. Scientists that study earthquakes.
  5. Large, steep-sided volcanoes that result from explosive eruptions of andesitic and rhyolitic lava and ash along convergent plate boundaries.
  6. The location on Earth's surface directly above the earthquake's focus.
  7. Cause particles to move up and down at right angles relative to the direction the wave travels.
  8. A break in Earth's lithosphere where one block of rock moves toward, away from, or past another.
  9. Measures and records ground motion and can be used to determine the distance seismic waves travel.
  10. Volcanoes that are not associated with plate boundaries.
Down
  1. Vibrations in the ground that result from movement along breaks in Earth's lithosphere.
  2. These waves originate where rocks first move along the fault, at a location inside Earth.
  3. Molten rock that erupts onto Earth's surface.
  4. Energy that travels as vibrations on and in Earth.
  5. A liquid's resistance to flow.
  6. Molten rock below Earth's surface.
  7. Common along divergent plate boundaries and oceanic hot spots.
  8. Small, steep-sided volcanoes that erupt gas-rich basaltic lavas.
  9. Tiny particles of pulverized volcanic rock and glass.
  10. A graphical illustration of seismic waves.

20 Clues: A liquid's resistance to flow. • Scientists that study earthquakes. • Molten rock below Earth's surface. • A graphical illustration of seismic waves. • Molten rock that erupts onto Earth's surface. • Energy that travels as vibrations on and in Earth. • Tiny particles of pulverized volcanic rock and glass. • Volcanoes that are not associated with plate boundaries. • ...

Unit 8 HW - 8th grade 2024-04-26

Unit 8 HW - 8th grade crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a very close friend, chum, buddy
  2. to make of no value or consequence, cancel, wipe out
  3. very earnest, emotional, passionate; extremely hot
  4. to limit, be sparing or frugal; a limit or restriction; a fixed share of work or duty; a period of activity
  5. to pass through or gain entrance to gradually or stealthily
  6. capable of being grasped by the senses or mind
  7. thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren
  8. to cause anger, irritation, or bitterness (with the suggestion that the pain grows worse with time)
  9. to be of use or benefit to; to make use of; to take advantage of; to profit or benefit; use, benefit, or value
  10. an agent, substitute; a written permission allowing one person to act in another's place
Down
  1. to plunge straight down; a weight fastened to a line
  2. clothes, apparel, garb; to dress, adorn, or bedeck
  3. a person who collects or removes usable items from waste materials; an animal that feeds on refuse or dead bodies
  4. tireless, continuing with vigor
  5. puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic
  6. going in different directions; different from each other; departing from convention, deviant
  7. self-controlled, not showing feeling in response to pleasure or pain
  8. to join at one end or be next to; to support, prop up
  9. hatred, ill-will
  10. to declare publicly or officially

20 Clues: hatred, ill-will • tireless, continuing with vigor • a very close friend, chum, buddy • to declare publicly or officially • puzzling, mystifying, or enigmatic • thin and bony, starved looking; bare, barren • capable of being grasped by the senses or mind • clothes, apparel, garb; to dress, adorn, or bedeck • very earnest, emotional, passionate; extremely hot • ...

Cymbals Crossword 2024-05-24

Cymbals Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. An obvious statement that everyone misses/ Pete Cain’s favourite word
  2. The thing that killed the cat
  3. Screwdriver, shovel, pen
  4. The opposite of ordinary
  5. Cooperation, alliance, union
  6. Incessant energy drink
  7. I’m gonna live forever
  8. Finding a £20 note on the street (I know, in this economy)
  9. The ability to bend without breaking is …
  10. To bring into existence or to produce through imaginative skill
  11. Hopscotch, Jenga, “What’s the time Mr Wolf?”
  12. Observing human behaviours…but not in a weird way
Down
  1. An important ‘s’ that makes it a success
  2. Song by the band Television
  3. Dystopian movies starring Shailene Woodley
  4. A way of doing something
  5. The lion from wizard of Oz could do with this
  6. The ability to wait
  7. Too much of it can make you reckless
  8. Like honey, glue or chewing gum you can’t quite shift from the bottom of your shoe
  9. That which David Foster Wallace believes is never-ending
  10. death Total diminishment of subjective self-identity
  11. Strive for this but drop the last letter to keep it sticky
  12. Song by the band Television
  13. Anything new is accomplished by unqualified people
  14. is king One eyed game is latest to be crowned
  15. kids are waiting for this type of fund to kick in
  16. Rich kids are waiting for this type of fund to kick in

28 Clues: The ability to wait • Incessant energy drink • I’m gonna live forever • A way of doing something • Screwdriver, shovel, pen • The opposite of ordinary • Song by the band Television • Song by the band Television • Cooperation, alliance, union • The thing that killed the cat • Too much of it can make you reckless • An important ‘s’ that makes it a success • ...

Plate Tectonics & Ocean Floor 2023-09-14

Plate Tectonics & Ocean Floor crossword puzzle
Across
  1. This increases as you get deeper in the ocean and in the earth as well
  2. A boundary where two tectonic plates are colliding.
  3. the inner most layer of the earth
  4. the scientific tool used to detect mountains in the ocean
  5. The outermost layer of the Earth's surface that includes the ocean floor.
  6. the part of the ocean floor where light reaches the most
  7. Large sections of the Earth's lithosphere that float on the semi-fluid asthenosphere.
  8. The lowest part of the ocean floor
  9. A boundary were two tectonic plates are sliding past each other
Down
  1. The outermost layer located above water.
  2. The process by which continents move over geological time.
  3. A part of the convergent boundary when one plate overlaps the other
  4. the middle layer of the earth
  5. The process of the ocean floor spreading apart at mid-ocean ridges.
  6. a deep sea mountain that was previously a volcano but whos top had flattened below sea level.
  7. A boundary where two tectonic plates are moving away from each other.
  8. the mountainous structure in subduction zones that forms as a result of an upswelling of magma
  9. The last name of the person who hypothesized continental drift.
  10. The part of the divergent boundary that plays a large role in seafloor spreading.
  11. The supercontinent that existed before all of the continents separated due to continental drift

20 Clues: the middle layer of the earth • the inner most layer of the earth • The lowest part of the ocean floor • The outermost layer located above water. • A boundary where two tectonic plates are colliding. • the part of the ocean floor where light reaches the most • the scientific tool used to detect mountains in the ocean • ...

Unit 3 Earth Science Vocabulary 2023-11-30

Unit 3 Earth Science Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Across
  1. measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale 1-10
  2. Tectonics- the theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that are always moving
  3. the process of moving weathered rock from one place to another
  4. the process of rock breaking apart
  5. is the molten rock that erupts from the volcano along with ash and hot gases
  6. the boundary between two tectonic plates that are COLLIDING with each other
  7. a break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side
  8. the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
  9. scientist that studies volcanoes
  10. very small pieces of rock
  11. the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water
  12. thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
Down
  1. a shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall
  2. the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  3. the layer of Earth extending from Earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle (Metallic)
  4. scientist that studies earthquakes
  5. the liquid rock below Earth’s crust
  6. natural land shape or feature
  7. a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth’s surface
  8. the strength of an earthquake
  9. the thin outer layer of Earth
  10. the boundary between two tectonic plates moving AWAY from each other

22 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 • 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 • ...

Unit 3 vocabulary words 2023-11-29

Unit 3 vocabulary words crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water
  2. the boundary between two tectonic plates that are COLLIDING with each other
  3. measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10
  4. the boundary between two tectonic plates moving AWAY from each other
  5. the process of rock breaking apart
  6. natural land shape or feature
  7. thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
  8. a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth’s surface
  9. a break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side
  10. scientist that studies earthquakes
Down
  1. the process of moving weathered rock from one place to another
  2. the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  3. the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
  4. the layer of Earth extending from Earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle (Metallic)
  5. the thin outer layer of Earth
  6. is the molten rock that erupts from the volcano along with ash and hot gases
  7. very small pieces of rock
  8. the strength of an earthquake
  9. a shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall
  10. the liquid rock below Earth’s crust
  11. the theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that are always moving
  12. scientist that studies volcanoes

22 Clues: very small pieces of rock • the thin outer layer of Earth • the strength of an earthquake • natural land shape or feature • 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 • ...

Weathering and Erosion Vocabulary 2023-11-29

Weathering and Erosion Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the liquid rock below Earth’s crust
  2. a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth’s surface
  3. the process of moving weathered rock from one place to another
  4. a shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall
  5. thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
  6. the theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that are always moving
  7. the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  8. the strength of an earthquake
  9. the thin outer layer of Earth
  10. very small pieces of rock
  11. the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
Down
  1. scientist that studies volcanoes
  2. is the molten rock that erupts from the volcano along with ash and hot gases
  3. the process of rock breaking apart
  4. the layer of Earth extending from Earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle (Metallic)
  5. a break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side
  6. natural land shape or feature
  7. scientist that studies earthquakes
  8. the boundary between two tectonic plates moving AWAY from each other
  9. measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10
  10. the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water
  11. the boundary between two tectonic plates that are COLLIDING with each other

22 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 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 • ...

Weathering and Erosion Vocabulary 2023-11-29

Weathering and Erosion Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the liquid rock below Earth’s crust
  2. a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth’s surface
  3. the process of moving weathered rock from one place to another
  4. a shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall
  5. thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
  6. the theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that are always moving
  7. the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  8. the strength of an earthquake
  9. the thin outer layer of Earth
  10. very small pieces of rock
  11. the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
Down
  1. scientist that studies volcanoes
  2. is the molten rock that erupts from the volcano along with ash and hot gases
  3. the process of rock breaking apart
  4. the layer of Earth extending from Earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle (Metallic)
  5. a break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side
  6. natural land shape or feature
  7. scientist that studies earthquakes
  8. the boundary between two tectonic plates moving AWAY from each other
  9. measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10
  10. the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water
  11. the boundary between two tectonic plates that are COLLIDING with each other

22 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 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 • ...

Unit 3 Earth Science Vocabulary 2023-11-29

Unit 3 Earth Science Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the thin outer layer of Earth
  2. is the molten rock that erupts from the volcano along with ash and hot gases
  3. the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water
  4. the process of rock breaking apart
  5. the liquid rock below Earth’s crust
  6. a break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side
  7. the boundary between two tectonic plates that are COLLIDING with each other
  8. the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  9. the strength of an earthquake
  10. Scale- measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10
  11. a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth’s surface
Down
  1. scientist that studies earthquakes
  2. the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
  3. natural land shape or feature
  4. very small pieces of rock
  5. a shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall
  6. the boundary between two tectonic plates moving AWAY from each other
  7. the process of moving weathered rock from one place to another
  8. the theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that are always moving
  9. thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
  10. scientist that studies volcanoes
  11. the layer of Earth extending from Earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle (Metallic)

22 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 • 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 • ...

Adaptations 2023-11-14

Adaptations crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Non-living factors such at climate, soil composition and landforms
  2. Too much or too little of an environmental factor that encourages adaptations
  3. all member of a species that live in an area
  4. Species have analogous structures
  5. Occurs when a gene becomes more frequent because it gives an advantage
  6. individual life form
  7. describes the physical space and environment that an organism can survive
  8. Organisms hunting and killing other species for food
  9. Physical differences in coloration, body covering, shape, etc.
  10. Organisms attempting to access the same resources or mates
  11. Is the evolution of a species due to traits favored by humans
Down
  1. Results from sudden decrease in population size which reduces the gene pool
  2. made of all the populations living and interacting in on area
  3. Internal body process, such as tanning or the production of poison
  4. Females choose males based on structural or behavioral differences
  5. all parts of Earth occupied by life
  6. Change in genes frequency due to random chance
  7. Factors that include other species like predators and competitors
  8. Few individuals from a large population migrate to an isolated area
  9. includes the biological community and the surrounding physical environment
  10. Actions takes, such as migrations or marking territory
  11. Species have homologous structures
  12. Characteristics that make an organism better suited to its habitat
  13. Change in the frequency of a gene in a population over time

24 Clues: individual life form • Species have analogous structures • Species have homologous structures • all parts of Earth occupied by life • all member of a species that live in an area • Change in genes frequency due to random chance • Organisms hunting and killing other species for food • Actions takes, such as migrations or marking territory • ...

Weathering, Erosion, Deposition 2023-12-01

Weathering, Erosion, Deposition crossword puzzle
Across
  1. thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
  2. a shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall
  3. scientist that studies volcanoes
  4. very small pieces of rock
  5. the liquid rock below Earth’s crust
  6. Tectonics- the theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that are always moving
  7. the boundary between two tectonic plates that are COLLIDING with each other. Divergent- the boundary between two tectonic plates moving AWAY from each other
  8. the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  9. scientist that studies earthquakes
  10. the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
Down
  1. measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10
  2. natural land shape or feature
  3. a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth’s surface
  4. the process of rock breaking apart
  5. the thin outer layer of Earth
  6. is the molten rock that erupts from the volcano along with ash and hot gases
  7. the layer of Earth extending from Earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle (Metallic)
  8. the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water
  9. the process of moving weathered rock from one place to another
  10. a break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side
  11. the strength of an earthquake

21 Clues: very small pieces of rock • natural land shape or feature • the thin outer layer of Earth • 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 • ...

Weathering, Erosion, Deposition 2023-12-01

Weathering, Erosion, Deposition crossword puzzle
Across
  1. thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
  2. a shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall
  3. scientist that studies volcanoes
  4. very small pieces of rock
  5. the liquid rock below Earth’s crust
  6. Tectonics- the theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that are always moving
  7. the boundary between two tectonic plates that are COLLIDING with each other. Divergent- the boundary between two tectonic plates moving AWAY from each other
  8. the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  9. scientist that studies earthquakes
  10. the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
Down
  1. measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10
  2. natural land shape or feature
  3. a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth’s surface
  4. the process of rock breaking apart
  5. the thin outer layer of Earth
  6. is the molten rock that erupts from the volcano along with ash and hot gases
  7. the layer of Earth extending from Earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle (Metallic)
  8. the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water
  9. the process of moving weathered rock from one place to another
  10. a break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side
  11. the strength of an earthquake

21 Clues: very small pieces of rock • natural land shape or feature • the thin outer layer of Earth • 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 • ...

Weathering, Erosion, Deposition 2023-12-01

Weathering, Erosion, Deposition crossword puzzle
Across
  1. thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
  2. a shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall
  3. scientist that studies volcanoes
  4. very small pieces of rock
  5. the liquid rock below Earth’s crust
  6. Tectonics- the theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that are always moving
  7. the boundary between two tectonic plates that are COLLIDING with each other. Divergent- the boundary between two tectonic plates moving AWAY from each other
  8. the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  9. scientist that studies earthquakes
  10. the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
Down
  1. measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10
  2. natural land shape or feature
  3. a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth’s surface
  4. the process of rock breaking apart
  5. the thin outer layer of Earth
  6. is the molten rock that erupts from the volcano along with ash and hot gases
  7. the layer of Earth extending from Earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle (Metallic)
  8. the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water
  9. the process of moving weathered rock from one place to another
  10. a break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side
  11. the strength of an earthquake

21 Clues: very small pieces of rock • natural land shape or feature • the thin outer layer of Earth • 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 • ...

Weathering, Erosion, Deposition 2023-12-01

Weathering, Erosion, Deposition crossword puzzle
Across
  1. thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
  2. a shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall
  3. scientist that studies volcanoes
  4. very small pieces of rock
  5. the liquid rock below Earth’s crust
  6. Tectonics- the theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that are always moving
  7. the boundary between two tectonic plates that are COLLIDING with each other. Divergent- the boundary between two tectonic plates moving AWAY from each other
  8. the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  9. scientist that studies earthquakes
  10. the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
Down
  1. measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10
  2. natural land shape or feature
  3. a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth’s surface
  4. the process of rock breaking apart
  5. the thin outer layer of Earth
  6. is the molten rock that erupts from the volcano along with ash and hot gases
  7. the layer of Earth extending from Earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle (Metallic)
  8. the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water
  9. the process of moving weathered rock from one place to another
  10. a break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side
  11. the strength of an earthquake

21 Clues: very small pieces of rock • natural land shape or feature • the thin outer layer of Earth • 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 • ...

Learning, Intelligence, & Consciousness 2023-07-20

Learning, Intelligence, & Consciousness crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Awareness of internal & external stimuli
  2. Sleep disorder associated with unwanted, disruptive motor activity
  3. Set of routine behaviors that are automatic, also known as a cognitive script
  4. Biological clock that fluctuates over a 24 hour period
  5. Reinforcement is delivered after an unpredictable number of responses (1,4,5)
  6. Theory of Intelligence believes it is an effect rather than a cause
  7. Pleasure is what type of reinforcer?
  8. Specific formula for solving a problem
  9. Unintentional stereotyping of someone or something
  10. Depressant because it suppresses the CNS
  11. Thinking outside the box
Down
  1. Biased decision based on an example, information, or recent experience that is readily available to you
  2. Classical Conditioning & Operant Conditioning are two forms of ________ learning
  3. Learning disability characterized by writing challenges
  4. Mental construct consisting of a cluster or collection of related concepts
  5. Learning Theory that people learn through observing, imitating, & modeling others behavior
  6. Type of conditioning when organisms learn to associate a behavior & it's consequence
  7. Change in behavior or knowledge as a result of experience
  8. Stimulus that does not initially elicit a response
  9. Mental shortcut in the form of a general problem-solving framework
  10. Percentage of the population have IQ's below 70
  11. Stimulus that elicits a response due to being paired with an unconditioned stimulus
  12. Punishment added to decrease a behavior
  13. Reinforcement is delivered at predictable time intervals
  14. Sleep spindles appear in which stage of sleep?

25 Clues: Thinking outside the box • Pleasure is what type of reinforcer? • Specific formula for solving a problem • Punishment added to decrease a behavior • Awareness of internal & external stimuli • Depressant because it suppresses the CNS • Sleep spindles appear in which stage of sleep? • Percentage of the population have IQ's below 70 • ...

Biology - Unit 9: Biomes, Human Impact, and Succession 2023-04-21

Biology - Unit 9: Biomes, Human Impact, and Succession crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Clearing forested land and repurposing it for non-forest use such as agriculture and urban development
  2. When populations are higher than the carrying capacity
  3. Predictable changes in an ecosystem as it progresses from pioneer species on bare rock to a mature climax community
  4. Aquatic regions where sunlight penetrates
  5. Created from a mutualistic symbiotic relationship between a plant and a fungus
  6. Land ecosystems categorized by average temperature and precipitation
  7. Water ecosystems categorized by light availability, water depth, and salinity
  8. Predictable changes in an ecosystem after a disturbance as it progresses toward reestablishing a mature climax community
  9. Long term changes in average global temperatures
  10. Visual representation of the feeding interactions in ecosystems
  11. Non-native species in a community
  12. Biomes where fresh and saltwater meet
Down
  1. The introduction of harmful materials into the environment
  2. No two species can occupy the same niche in an ecosystem
  3. Mature form of an ecosystem
  4. First species to invade or populate an area
  5. Measurement of the variety and richness of an ecosystem
  6. Aquatic regions that do not have sunlight
  7. Key organisms in an ecosystem that help stabilize or maintain that ecosystem
  8. Pocket ecosystems at the bottom of the ocean near divergent plate boundaries
  9. Species that evolve and are only found in one isolated geographic location
  10. Collection of ecosystems characterized with similar temperatures, rainfall totals, and climax communities

22 Clues: Mature form of an ecosystem • Non-native species in a community • Biomes where fresh and saltwater meet • Aquatic regions that do not have sunlight • Aquatic regions where sunlight penetrates • First species to invade or populate an area • Long term changes in average global temperatures • When populations are higher than the carrying capacity • ...

chapter 4 and 5 2021-11-10

chapter 4 and 5 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a flat area on earth's surface
  2. earth crust bends as a result of compression
  3. a force pressing something together
  4. low water area formed at the mouth of a river
  5. a crack on the earth's surface
  6. a pulling force to stretch something
  7. the rock that made up of oceanic crust
  8. a hot dry place with little or no rain
  9. a large crack in the earth formed by a river
  10. a flat area higher than the land around it
  11. the rock that made up of continental crust
  12. the sections that lithospher was seperated
  13. the upward part of a fold
  14. the action of volcano eruption
  15. the surface shape of a landform
  16. a narrow strip of land connects two large land
  17. natural features on the earth's surface
  18. the land rise between 2 parallel faults
Down
  1. a place that is much higher than the land around
  2. a land has water all around it
  3. a low area between higher lands
  4. the downward part of a fold
  5. two plates collide with each other
  6. the plastic layer that affect plate tectonic
  7. two plates move away
  8. the supercontinent all land once joined together
  9. the height above sea level
  10. a strip of land extends out into water
  11. one plate slide under another plate
  12. the land sinks between 2 paralle faults

30 Clues: two plates move away • the upward part of a fold • the height above sea level • the downward part of a fold • a land has water all around it • a flat area on earth's surface • a crack on the earth's surface • the action of volcano eruption • a low area between higher lands • the surface shape of a landform • two plates collide with each other • a force pressing something together • ...

chapter 4 and 5 2021-11-10

chapter 4 and 5 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a strip of land extends out into water
  2. a pulling force to stretch something
  3. two plates move away
  4. the upward part of a fold
  5. the sections that lithospher was seperated
  6. two plates collide with each other
  7. the rock that made up of oceanic crust
  8. a narrow strip of land connects two large land
  9. the supercontinent all land once joined together
  10. the land rise between 2 parallel faults
  11. a low area between higher lands
  12. the land sinks between 2 paralle faults
  13. one plate slide under another plate
  14. a land has water all around it
  15. earth crust bends as a result of compression
Down
  1. the plastic layer that affect plate tectonic
  2. a large crack in the earth formed by a river
  3. a place that is much higher than the land around
  4. the downward part of a fold
  5. the rock that made up of continental crust
  6. the action of volcano eruption
  7. a hot dry place with little or no rain
  8. a flat area higher than the land around it
  9. low water area formed at the mouth of a river
  10. a flat area on earth's surface
  11. a crack on the earth's surface
  12. a force pressing something together
  13. natural features on the earth's surface
  14. the height above sea level
  15. the surface shape of a landform

30 Clues: two plates move away • the upward part of a fold • the height above sea level • the downward part of a fold • the action of volcano eruption • a flat area on earth's surface • a crack on the earth's surface • a land has water all around it • a low area between higher lands • the surface shape of a landform • two plates collide with each other • a force pressing something together • ...

MOUNT FUJI 2021-12-02

MOUNT FUJI crossword puzzle
Across
  1. What type of volcano is Mount Fuji?
  2. What is the oldest Mount Fuji route?
  3. what type of lava does mount fuji have?
  4. There are places so beautiful in the country, they're known as the "Three Views of Japan". What is NOT one of these traditional views?
  5. who discovered mount Fuji
  6. Located in Kyoto, Sagano is a forest made up of what plant?
  7. one of the names of the 3 seperate mountains on mount fuji?
  8. mount fuji symbolize
  9. what type of sunrise you can see from mount fuji?
  10. Rows of ______ grows in the background of Mount Fuji
  11. Soaring at 12,388 feet, what is the highest point in Japan?
  12. Where is mount Fuji located
  13. Pioneer company in arcade and video games whose logo is based on Mount Fuji
Down
  1. is mount fuji convergent or divergent?
  2. At about 259 square miles, what is the biggest lake entirely in Japan?
  3. Which science-fiction movie had been filmed on Mount Fuji?
  4. Who was the first ascent of Mount Fuji ?
  5. The best time to visit Muroji Temple is during the festival for these flowers.
  6. Central region of the Japanese island Honshu..., site of Mount Fuji
  7. What makes up more than 70 percent of Japan's terrain?
  8. What lives near Mount Fuji?
  9. Which forest is located at the north-west base of the mountain?
  10. What caused Mount Fuji?

23 Clues: mount fuji symbolize • What caused Mount Fuji? • who discovered mount Fuji • What lives near Mount Fuji? • Where is mount Fuji located • What type of volcano is Mount Fuji? • What is the oldest Mount Fuji route? • is mount fuji convergent or divergent? • what type of lava does mount fuji have? • Who was the first ascent of Mount Fuji ? • ...

Chapter 6 Crossword Puzzel 2021-12-09

Chapter 6 Crossword Puzzel crossword puzzle
Across
  1. center of an earthquakes activity
  2. spreading zones along some plate margins that are moving apart
  3. the section of rock on opposite sides of the crack move relative to each other
  4. the spot on the earth's surface directly above the focus
  5. fault faults motion is parallel to its dip
  6. block above the fault surface dropped in relation to the block under the fault
  7. force exerted inside a material
  8. fastest body waves and have relatively small amplitudes and short wavelengths
  9. strengths of earthquakes are reported
  10. the angle of a fault
  11. plates slide past each other in opposite directions along long cracks in the crust
  12. detects earthquake waves
Down
  1. upward force on a less dense object in a denser material
  2. only motion along the fault is horizontal
  3. indicates the energy released by the earth's movement
  4. waves with larger amplitudes
  5. zones of collision or subduction- plates are moving toward each other
  6. forces that act to pull an object apart
  7. a force that acts to squeeze or crush an object
  8. any kind of shaking of the ground measurable by seismic instruments
  9. last waves to reach a seismic station
  10. direction of a fault
  11. crack in a rock that shows no indication of motion on either side of the crack
  12. two forces acting in opposite directions attempt to slide

24 Clues: direction of a fault • the angle of a fault • detects earthquake waves • waves with larger amplitudes • force exerted inside a material • center of an earthquakes activity • last waves to reach a seismic station • strengths of earthquakes are reported • forces that act to pull an object apart • only motion along the fault is horizontal • ...

Volcanoes 2022-04-13

Volcanoes crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Basaltic lavas that are much more fluid
  2. Fluid basaltic lava extruded from crustal fractures
  3. Dust and has can significantly alter global temperatures
  4. Magma that is forcibly injected into a fracture zone or bedding zone
  5. Mud flow from interaction with debris and water
  6. lava with a rough, jagged, blocky texture
  7. 1980, the largest historic eruption in North America
  8. Fiery pyroclastic flow made of hot gases infused with ash and other debris
  9. Steep walled depression at the summit and generally less than 1 kilometer in diameter
  10. Fire fragments such as ash and dust, pumice, Lapilli etc
Down
  1. Poisonous gases can be inhaled
  2. Clouds of volcanic ash damage planes
  3. Lavas occurring along divergent plate boundaries on the ocean floor
  4. Activity within a tectonic plate
  5. A summit depression typically greater than 1 kilometer in diameter which is produced by collapse following a massive eruption
  6. A source material for volcanic eruptions
  7. One to six percent of magma by weight
  8. lava that resembles a twisted or ropey texture
  9. Opening connected to the magma chamber via a pipe.
  10. Large amounts of intruded material
  11. Triggered from collapse of volcanic landforms in the ocean
  12. the resistance to flow
  13. Resistant vents left standing after erosion has removed the volcanic cone
  14. Built from ejected basaltic lava fragments forming a steep slope
  15. Magma rises through crust

25 Clues: the resistance to flow • Magma rises through crust • Poisonous gases can be inhaled • Activity within a tectonic plate • Large amounts of intruded material • Clouds of volcanic ash damage planes • One to six percent of magma by weight • Basaltic lavas that are much more fluid • A source material for volcanic eruptions • lava with a rough, jagged, blocky texture • ...

Earth's Structure 2022-02-17

Earth's Structure crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Movement on the ocean floor
  2. Plate boundaries that are moving toward each other
  3. Crust is divided into sections called_______
  4. Outer layer of the Earth is the_____
  5. Seismographs detect this movement
  6. Plate boundaries that are sliding past each other
  7. Sedimentary rock contains fossils
  8. Naturally formed inorganic solid with crystal structure
  9. Igneous rock cooled quickly outside the Earth
  10. remains, or physical evidence of a once living thing
  11. The core that is liquid
  12. The core that is solid
  13. The supercontinent that was one landmass
  14. Layer under the crust is the______
Down
  1. The color of a mineral in powder form.
  2. The core is made mostly of this metal
  3. The hardness scale to test minerals
  4. When one plate moves down underneath another plate
  5. The bending or folding of rock
  6. The transfer of warm and cool liquids in a circular current
  7. Scientist that developed the theory of continental drift
  8. The way a mineral reflcts light
  9. Igneous rock cooled inside the Earth
  10. Rock that is changed by heat and pressure
  11. Magma that reaches the Earth's surface
  12. made of mixtures of minerals
  13. Rock that is formed from layers of sediment
  14. Tracks are an example of a _______ fossil
  15. Plate boundaries that are moving away from each other
  16. Melted rock under the Earth

30 Clues: The core that is solid • The core that is liquid • Movement on the ocean floor • Melted rock under the Earth • made of mixtures of minerals • The bending or folding of rock • The way a mineral reflcts light • Seismographs detect this movement • Sedimentary rock contains fossils • Layer under the crust is the______ • The hardness scale to test minerals • ...

Stems List 19 2022-05-16

Stems List 19 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. We should learn more about the ______ system.
  2. _____ is the action of dividing or splitting something into two or more parts.
  3. We have rules to _______ students from getting in trouble.
  4. _____ clouds are detached, individual, cauliflower-shaped clouds usually spotted in fair weather condition.
  5. Somebody owns a valuable _____.
  6. Helena is the capital of ______.
  7. 1,000 meter is a ______.
  8. The villain made me _______.
  9. The candy will _____ me.
  10. Somebody is defying _____.
  11. The ________ studies fish.
  12. _____ is a type of skin cancer that develops from the pigment-producing cells known as melanocytes
  13. ______ is a device for indicating the angular (rotary) speed of a rotating shaft.
Down
  1. ____settle or find a solution to (a problem, dispute, or contentious matter).
  2. Animals ____ in the winter.
  3. ____ is related to the eye and its diseases.
  4. a layer or a series of layers of rock in the ground is called a _____.
  5. DNA is in the_____.
  6. ____ is an approaching frontal system or upper air disturbance.
  7. ______rocks contain many definite traces of primitive life-forms
  8. _____ is relating to meteors and meteorite.
  9. A_____ has a single pair of antennae and, in most cases, simple eyes.
  10. ____ an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous.
  11. The colorless liquid is _______.
  12. The movie____ has a character named Tris

25 Clues: DNA is in the_____. • 1,000 meter is a ______. • The candy will _____ me. • Somebody is defying _____. • The ________ studies fish. • Animals ____ in the winter. • The villain made me _______. • Somebody owns a valuable _____. • Helena is the capital of ______. • The colorless liquid is _______. • The movie____ has a character named Tris • ...

Plate Tectonics 2022-05-18

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Magma that erupts onto the earth's surface.
  2. Molten rock stored beneath the earth's surface.
  3. A boundary where two plates move toward each other.
  4. rising mantel material at mid-ocean ridges push plates away from the ridge.
  5. the size of an earthquake is determined by how much energy is released by an earthquake.
  6. Vents in the earth's crust through which molten rock flows.
  7. Lave that erupts underwater that hardens and flows into unique shapes.
  8. made up of one or more faults.
  9. features that cross the fault such as streams shifted both by plate movement and earthquakes.
  10. the circulation within fluids caused by differences in density and thermal energy.
Down
  1. Formed similarly to the Himalayas.
  2. long narrow mountains formed by magma at divergent boundaries.
  3. when two plates slide past each other.
  4. the vibrations caused by rupture in the sudden movement of rocks along a break or a crack in earths crust.
  5. A boundary when two plates move away from each other.
  6. largest and highest mountain range in the world that are still growing.
  7. section of the earth combining the crust and upper mantle.
  8. when two plates collide, one can sink the other when this happens, it pulls on the rest of the plate.
  9. a crack or fracture in the earth's crust along which movement occurs.
  10. The process that occurs when one tectonic plate moves under another tectonic plate.

20 Clues: made up of one or more faults. • Formed similarly to the Himalayas. • when two plates slide past each other. • Magma that erupts onto the earth's surface. • Molten rock stored beneath the earth's surface. • A boundary where two plates move toward each other. • A boundary when two plates move away from each other. • ...

Rocks/Plate Tectonics SOL 5.8 VA 2025-02-10

Rocks/Plate Tectonics SOL 5.8 VA crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Which layer of the Earth is a solid ball of metal?
  2. What kind of plate boundary moves together?
  3. Movement or vibration in Earth caused by the release of stored energy in Earth's outer layer?
  4. Materials that are deposited in new locations
  5. Which is the thinnest layer of the earth
  6. Materials that are moved by wind and water
  7. What kind of plate boundary moves apart?
  8. Type of rock that has been changed by heat and pressure
  9. Breaking down of rocks and other materials on Earth's surface
Down
  1. The never ending process by which rocks are changed from one type into another
  2. Earth's thermal energy causes _______ of material wswithin Earth.
  3. Plates that slip past each other horizontally are called ______ boundaries
  4. Type of rock that is formed from smaller bits of rock or parts of once living things that have been pressed together
  5. Most earthquakes and volcanos are found at what boundary.
  6. Which layer of the Earth is liquid?
  7. Type of rock that is formed from hot, molten rock material that has cooled and hardened
  8. Can be classified by composition, grain size, textural features, color and presence of fossils
  9. Large, continent size blocks that moved slowly about Earth's surface.
  10. What provides information about life and conditions of the past?
  11. What is the thickest layer of the Earth?

20 Clues: Which layer of the Earth is liquid? • Which is the thinnest layer of the earth • What kind of plate boundary moves apart? • What is the thickest layer of the Earth? • Materials that are moved by wind and water • What kind of plate boundary moves together? • Materials that are deposited in new locations • Which layer of the Earth is a solid ball of metal? • ...

weathering erosion deposition 2024-12-13

weathering erosion deposition crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Tectonics- the theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that are always moving
  2. the process of rock breaking apart
  3. the thin outer layer of Earth
  4. form- natural land shape or feature
  5. the boundary between two tectonic plates that are COLLIDING with each other
  6. a break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side
  7. a shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall
  8. the boundary between two tectonic plates moving AWAY from each other
  9. very small pieces of rock
Down
  1. thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
  2. the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  3. the liquid rock below Earth’s crust
  4. a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth’s surface
  5. the process of moving weathered rock from one place to another
  6. the strength of an earthquake
  7. the layer of Earth extending from Earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle (Metallic)
  8. Scale- measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10 Epicenter- the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake Seismologist- scientist that studies earthquakes
  9. scientist that studies earthquakes
  10. the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
  11. the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water

20 Clues: very small pieces of rock • the strength of an earthquake • the thin outer layer of Earth • the process of rock breaking apart • scientist that studies earthquakes • the liquid rock below Earth’s crust • form- natural land shape or feature • thick layer of Earth beneath the crust • the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water • ...

Tectonic Plates 2023-12-14

Tectonic Plates crossword puzzle
Across
  1. helps us identify the age of rocks
  2. the US state that the river that carves the Grand Canyon is named after
  3. Earth's interior
  4. zone where one plate goes under the other
  5. flat, elevated landform that rises sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side
  6. lithosphere is a layer of rigid rock that consists of the crust and the upper part of Earth’s mantle
  7. A _____ slope erodes faster
  8. we used this to model erosion
  9. When met with a continental plate, this plate sinks under
  10. a boundary that forms trenches
  11. an ancient oceanic plate that subducted under North America
  12. relatively thick part of the earth that forms large landmasses
Down
  1. a supercontinent before Pangaea
  2. the breaking down or dissolving of rocks and minerals
  3. an accurate way to measure ocean depths
  4. a geologic feature that can be created by a convergent boundary
  5. one of the plates that is responsible for the Mariana Trench
  6. maps out the sequence of events
  7. a boundary that forms ridges
  8. plates that are ______ sink under other plates
  9. they used this to first "discover" the depth of the Mariana Trench
  10. process where earthen materials are worn away and transported by natural forces such as wind or water
  11. the mountains where the Colorado River starts
  12. enormous, slowly-moving sections of Earth’s crust

24 Clues: Earth's interior • A _____ slope erodes faster • a boundary that forms ridges • we used this to model erosion • a boundary that forms trenches • a supercontinent before Pangaea • maps out the sequence of events • helps us identify the age of rocks • an accurate way to measure ocean depths • zone where one plate goes under the other • ...

English IV Vocab 2023-12-12

English IV Vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. to accept, comply, or submit tacitly or passively
  2. a typical or ideal example
  3. moving or extending in different directions from a common point
  4. to examine or consider with attention and in detail
  5. marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy
  6. an error in chronology
  7. conspicuous
  8. not harmonious
  9. characterized by or being an extremely rapid increase
  10. an extended usually written treatment of a subject
  11. something that serves as a standard by which others may be measured or judged
  12. to work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor
  13. a word of opposite meaning
  14. the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another
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  1. to set forth or make clear by degrees or in detail
  2. something suggested by a word or thing
  3. showing or suggesting a lofty and courageous spirit
  4. of, relating to, or undergoing training in a skill or trade to be pursued as a career
  5. arising unexpectedly
  6. one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning
  7. the direct opposite
  8. something hard to understand or explain
  9. of or relating to the intellect or its use
  10. the technical terminology or characteristic idiom of a special activity or group
  11. having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying

25 Clues: conspicuous • not harmonious • the direct opposite • arising unexpectedly • an error in chronology • a typical or ideal example • a word of opposite meaning • something suggested by a word or thing • something hard to understand or explain • of or relating to the intellect or its use • marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy • ...

Crossword 2024-01-10

Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Dominance of reptiles and dinosaurs
  2. stress that pulls apart
  3. events that occur at the Earth’s surface due to application of natural force
  4. a German geophysicist & meteorologist proposed the continental drift theory
  5. source of heat
  6. upward arch
  7. bulk movements of soil, sand, and rock debris.
  8. rock is broken down or dissolved into smaller pieces by physical, chemical or biological
  9. sedimentary rock strata above and below the surface of erosion is parallel to each other.
  10. study of the processes that deform earth’s crust.
  11. Process by which rocks are altered in composition, texture, or internal structure by extreme heat
  12. used to arrange geological events, and the rocks left behind, in a sequence
Down
  1. condition of gravitational and buoyant equilibrium between Earth's lithosphere and asthenosphere
  2. plates move away from each other.
  3. Internal change in nature
  4. stress that causes material to twist
  5. Extremely hot liquid located under the earth’s surface
  6. Age of mammals
  7. plates move towards each other and collide.
  8. Includes degradation and aggradation processes.
  9. used to determine ages of human fossils and habitation sites
  10. Age of “ancient life”
  11. layer below the erosional surface is either a metamorphic rock or an igneous rock
  12. grinding/sliding action between the plates
  13. stress that decreases the volume
  14. downward arch
  15. Also known as the eon of “hidden life” or Cryptozoic

27 Clues: upward arch • downward arch • Age of mammals • source of heat • Age of “ancient life” • stress that pulls apart • Internal change in nature • stress that decreases the volume • plates move away from each other. • Dominance of reptiles and dinosaurs • stress that causes material to twist • grinding/sliding action between the plates • plates move towards each other and collide. • ...

Plate tectonics Assignment 2024-10-15

Plate tectonics Assignment crossword puzzle
Across
  1. when two plates slide against each others
  2. The point of origin of an earthquake
  3. when two plates move apart
  4. A collisional boundary occurs where two land masses on plates are pushed together
  5. melted rock beneath Earth's surface
  6. the melted rock on Earth's surface
  7. A dropped zone where two tectonic plates are pulling apart.
  8. the outermost layer of earth
  9. is formed when very hot rock rises through mantle and erupt through Earth's crust
  10. a slowly flowing layer of solid and melted rock formed by heat and pressure
  11. The point on earth’s surface that is vertically above the focus of an earthquake
Down
  1. A huge ocean wave caused by a sudden, powerful shift on the ocean floor
  2. The name given to the supercontinent that existed more than 225 million years ago
  3. A crack or fracture in Earth's crust where two tectonic plates grind past each other in a horizontal direction
  4. Any of various instruments for measuring and recording the vibrations of earthquakes
  5. when one plate slides under another plate
  6. The upper part of the Earth including the crust and upper mantle
  7. the layer of Earth between the core and the crust
  8. A deep valley that forms at the edge of a continent when an oceanic plate sinks underneath a continental plate.
  9. a trembling or shaking of the earth surface results in sudden surge of energies from Earth's crust

20 Clues: when two plates move apart • the outermost layer of earth • the melted rock on Earth's surface • melted rock beneath Earth's surface • The point of origin of an earthquake • when two plates slide against each others • when one plate slides under another plate • the layer of Earth between the core and the crust • A dropped zone where two tectonic plates are pulling apart. • ...

Honors CFE Review 2 2024-04-05

Honors CFE Review 2 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Landform that forms at convergent boundaries between continental plates
  2. Zone where the denser plate is pulled into the mantle
  3. Process that fuels stars
  4. Ocean current that runs along the coast of Florida depositing warm air
  5. Shape of the planetary orbits around the Sun
  6. All of the gases that surround Earth
  7. Any factor in an experiment that can change
  8. Process in which solid water becomes water vapor without becoming a liquid first
  9. Long term weather conditions for a region
  10. The lit side of the moon is completely turned away from the Earth
  11. The next stage in the Sun's life cycle
  12. Boundary in which new seafloor is created
  13. Distance based on the distance that light travels in a year
  14. Daily rise and fall of the sea level due to the moon and Sun's gravity
Down
  1. Refers to a star's brightness; the lower this number, the brighter the star
  2. Dry air masses that form over land
  3. Process in which plants convert sunlight energy into chemical energy
  4. Can be used to determine a star's temperature
  5. Move air masses around Earth
  6. Term in lunar phases that refers to the amount of the lit side that is visible to the Earth increasing
  7. Consists of the rocks, minerals and interior of Earth
  8. All of the living things on Earth
  9. Weakest fundamental force

23 Clues: Process that fuels stars • Weakest fundamental force • Move air masses around Earth • All of the living things on Earth • Dry air masses that form over land • All of the gases that surround Earth • The next stage in the Sun's life cycle • Long term weather conditions for a region • Boundary in which new seafloor is created • Any factor in an experiment that can change • ...

Plate tectonic terms 2022-01-15

Plate tectonic terms crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a large moveable segment of the lithosphere
  2. the upper layer of earths interior, including the crust and the upper brittle portion of the earths mantle
  3. the study of tectonism, including it’s causes and effects, most notably mountain building
  4. boundaries between plates
  5. the otter most layer of the earth
  6. two plates move away from one another
  7. sub marine mountain ridges where new seafloor is created by seafloor spreading
  8. thick, dense, middle layer of the earth
  9. a form of stress produced by a force that acts to stretch a material
  10. an area of rock that has been bent by stress
  11. the theory that the configuration of the earths continents was once different than it is today
Down
  1. a region of extremely high pressure underlying the lithosphere, where rocks are deformed by enormous stresses.
  2. two plates slide past one another going in different directions
  3. the theory that seafloor crack open along the crests of mid-ocean ridges and that new seafloor forms in those areas
  4. the center of the earth
  5. a split between two bodies (for example, two plates)that once was joined
  6. any attempt to deform a solid
  7. a long trough bounded by two or more faults
  8. two plates move towards one another
  9. an area of fracturing between rocks that has been bent by stress

20 Clues: the center of the earth • boundaries between plates • any attempt to deform a solid • the otter most layer of the earth • two plates move towards one another • two plates move away from one another • thick, dense, middle layer of the earth • a large moveable segment of the lithosphere • a long trough bounded by two or more faults • ...

Evolution and Natural Selection 2022-02-10

Evolution and Natural Selection crossword puzzle
Across
  1. extinction occurs at a slow rate
  2. study of physical structures
  3. slow change over a long period of time
  4. study of how and why species live where they live
  5. evolution different species evolve similar characteristics because they live in similar environments
  6. preserved remains of an animal; bones, shells, imprints
  7. extinction >50% of all species die, catastrophic event
  8. Feature that allows and organism to better survive in its environment
  9. movement of genes into/out of a population
  10. structure same structure different function
  11. two organisms change in response to one another and for a specialized relationship
  12. population where allele frequency doesn't change, not real
  13. process of biological change that makes descendants different from ancestors
  14. study of embryos and their development
Down
  1. with modification change in gene frequency over time, beneficial traits become more common
  2. branch of science that explores the chemical processes within living organisms
  3. some organisms survive and reproduce better than others
  4. structure similar function, different anatomy
  5. evolution number of different species arise from one ancestor
  6. formation of a new species by evolution
  7. study of prehistoric life
  8. structure little to no function to organism, was useful to ancestor species
  9. select traits not useful for survival but without them won't be chosen as a mate
  10. all genes in a population of a species

24 Clues: study of prehistoric life • study of physical structures • extinction occurs at a slow rate • slow change over a long period of time • all genes in a population of a species • study of embryos and their development • formation of a new species by evolution • movement of genes into/out of a population • structure same structure different function • ...

Plate motion 2025-10-29

Plate motion crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a under water mountain range formed when two plates move apart
  2. the layer of soft solid rock underneath Earths plates
  3. 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
  4. moving toward the same place
  5. moving apart in different directions
  6. Located between the mantle and the inner core
  7. a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
  8. to examine in detail for a purpose
  9. how often or fast something happens
Down
  1. something that we observe to be similar over and over again
  2. the plate where the plate come together
  3. a solid metal ball that is extremely dense and intensely hot
  4. Earth outer most layer of hard solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water
  5. the rigid part of the Earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle
  6. a sudden shaking of Earth surface
  7. moves on top of a soft, soil, layer of rock called the mantle and that travel at a rate to slow to be experienced by humans
  8. is like the shell of a hard boiled egg and it is extremely thin
  9. a long deep indentation in the ocean floor
  10. one of the very large section of hard solid rock that make up Earths outer layer
  11. when two plates slide

20 Clues: when two plates slide • moving toward the same place • a sudden shaking of Earth surface • to examine in detail for a purpose • how often or fast something happens • moving apart in different directions • the plate where the plate come together • a long deep indentation in the ocean floor • Located between the mantle and the inner core • ...

Igneous Rock Crossword Puzzle 2025-10-24

Igneous Rock Crossword Puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Magma with high silica content, typically light-colored
  2. A plate boundary where plates slide horizontally past each other
  3. A steep, layered volcano formed at subduction zones
  4. The process of magma breaking through the Earth's surface
  5. A geological zone where two tectonic plates move toward each other and collide
  6. Rock formed when molten rock cools rapidly on the Earth's surface
  7. Hot liquid rock beneath the Earth's surface
  8. Gases dissolved in magma, including water and carbon dioxide
  9. Rock formed when magma cools slowly beneath the Earth's surface
  10. A broad, gently sloping volcano formed by non-explosive basaltic lava flows
  11. The opening in the Earth's surface through which volcanic material emerges
Down
  1. Fine particles of pulverized rock expelled during an eruption
  2. A tectonic plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
  3. An area where one tectonic plate slides beneath another
  4. A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic debris
  5. Underground reservoir where molten rock accumulates
  6. A large section of the Earth's lithosphere that moves
  7. Magma with low silica content, typically dark and dense
  8. The process of mineral arrangement as magma cools
  9. Magma with moderate silica content between basaltic and felsic
  10. Rock formed from cooled and solidified magma
  11. A lightweight, porous volcanic rock formed when super-heated, gas-filled lava cools rapidly
  12. Hot liquid rock that has reached the Earth's surface

23 Clues: Hot liquid rock beneath the Earth's surface • Rock formed from cooled and solidified magma • The process of mineral arrangement as magma cools • Underground reservoir where molten rock accumulates • A steep, layered volcano formed at subduction zones • A fast-moving current of hot gas and volcanic debris • Hot liquid rock that has reached the Earth's surface • ...

Plate tectonics: crossword puzzle 2026-01-20

Plate tectonics: crossword puzzle crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the Process where new oceanic crust forms at mid-ocean ridges.
  2. Events such as earthquakes and volcanoes caused by Earths processes.
  3. the outermost layer of the Earth.
  4. A deep valley in the ocean floor formed by subduction.
  5. Type of crust found under oceans.
  6. Where two continental plates collide.
  7. a very large landmass made of all continents joined together.
  8. Early theory stating continents slowly move over Earth’s surface.
  9. Sudden shaking of Earth caused by plate movement.
  10. A large ocean wave caused by undersea earthquakes or eruptions.
  11. a naturally occurring solid material that makes up Earth.
  12. a plate boundary where plates move apart.
  13. Earth’s outer rocky layer.
  14. The thick layer beneath Earth’s crust
Down
  1. Long underwater mountain chains.
  2. Process where one plate sinks beneath another.
  3. The point underground where an earthquake begins.
  4. A volcanic area fed by magma from deep within Earth.
  5. a plate boundary where plates slide past each other.
  6. the theory explaining the movement of Earth's plates.
  7. Preserved remains or traces of ancient life.
  8. Scientist who proposed sea-floor spreading.
  9. the ancient super continent that existed millions of years ago.
  10. The solid center of the Earth.
  11. Rigid outer layer made of crust and upper mantle.
  12. Molten rock that erupts from volcanoes.
  13. Vibrations that travel through Earth during an earthquake.
  14. A crack or break where Earth’s crust is pulling apart.

28 Clues: Earth’s outer rocky layer. • The solid center of the Earth. • Long underwater mountain chains. • the outermost layer of the Earth. • Type of crust found under oceans. • Where two continental plates collide. • The thick layer beneath Earth’s crust • Molten rock that erupts from volcanoes. • a plate boundary where plates move apart. • ...

5th grade science, unit 3! 2025-12-15

5th grade science, unit 3! crossword puzzle
Across
  1. the boundary between two tectonic plates that are sliding away from each other.
  2. the point on Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
  3. a shaking of Earth's surface that can cause land to rise and fall.
  4. the thin outer layer of the earth.
  5. a break in the Earth's crust where rock on one side moves in regulation to rock on the other side.
  6. is the molton rock that erupts from the volcano along with ash and hot gases.
  7. the boundary between two tectonic plates that collide with each other.
  8. scientist that studies earthquakes.
  9. moving weathered rock/sediment from one place to another.
  10. the liquid rock below Earth's surface.
  11. the boundary between two tectonic plates moving away from each other.
Down
  1. the theory that the Earth's crust is divided into plates that are always moving.
  2. thick layer of earth beneath the crust.
  3. the process of rock breaking apart.
  4. natural land shape or feature.
  5. measure the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10.
  6. the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water.
  7. scientist that studies volcanoes
  8. the strength of an earthquake.
  9. a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth's surface.
  10. the layer of earth extending from Earth's center to the bottom of the mantle(metallic).
  11. very small pieces of rock.

22 Clues: very small pieces of rock. • natural land shape or feature. • the strength of an earthquake. • scientist that studies volcanoes • the thin outer layer of the earth. • the process of rock breaking apart. • scientist that studies earthquakes. • the liquid rock below Earth's surface. • thick layer of earth beneath the crust. • ...

Chxzy V. Corioso 2025-08-26

Chxzy V. Corioso crossword puzzle
Across
  1. – Water used for cleaning and bathing
  2. – Water used in factories
  3. – Zone with frequent earthquakes
  4. – Boundary where plates collide
  5. – The deepest part of the ocean
  6. – Fastest seismic waves
  7. – Fault type where rocks move vertically
  8. – Trench formed by subduction
  9. – Fault type where rocks move horizontally
  10. – Fault caused by tension
  11. – Slowest seismic waves
  12. – Point inside Earth where an earthquake starts
  13. – Fault caused by compression
  14. – Water used to sustain ecosystems
  15. – Boundary where plates slide past each other
  16. – Water used for growing crops
  17. – Use of water for electricity
  18. – Scientist who studies earthquakes
Down
  1. – Theory explaining plate movement
  2. – Metal in the solid inner core
  3. – A metal in the Earth's outer core
  4. – Sudden shaking of the ground
  5. – Water used for leisure
  6. – Point on Earth's surface above the focus
  7. – The oldest ocean
  8. – The outermost solid layer of the Earth
  9. – Water used for drinking and cooking
  10. – The innermost layer of the Earth
  11. – Boundary where plates move apart
  12. – Cycle that moves water through Earth
  13. – Instrument that records earthquake waves
  14. – Process forming mid-ocean ridges
  15. – Ancient supercontinent
  16. – The process of ocean floor spreading
  17. – Slow movement of tectonic plates
  18. – Waves that travel through Earth
  19. – The layer beneath the crust
  20. – Semi-fluid part of the mantle
  21. – Layer responsible for tectonic activity
  22. – Scale used to measure magnitude

40 Clues: – The oldest ocean • – Fastest seismic waves • – Slowest seismic waves • – Water used for leisure • – Ancient supercontinent • – Water used in factories • – Fault caused by tension • – Trench formed by subduction • – Fault caused by compression • – The layer beneath the crust • – Sudden shaking of the ground • – Water used for growing crops • – Use of water for electricity • ...

AOT Vocabulary Review 2023-10-31

AOT Vocabulary Review crossword puzzle
Across
  1. There is a good chance that it will happen, but it is not certain.
  2. When our brains come up with as many ideas or solutions as possible.
Down
  1. Thinking about your thinking.
  2. When our brains use information to make the best decision or find the right answer.

4 Clues: Thinking about your thinking. • There is a good chance that it will happen, but it is not certain. • When our brains come up with as many ideas or solutions as possible. • When our brains use information to make the best decision or find the right answer.

Project 2021-05-19

Project crossword puzzle
Across
  1. moving or extending in different directions
Down
  1. tending to move toward one point
  2. make a thorough or dramatic change

3 Clues: tending to move toward one point • make a thorough or dramatic change • moving or extending in different directions

Science vocab 2022-09-16

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

24 Clues: The core is the central part of the earth below the mantle • The mantle is the layer of rock between the earth's crust and core • the crust is the thin and solid outermost layer on earth above the mantle • Convergent boundary is the boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding • ...

Unit 4 Vocab Crossword 2022-10-27

Unit 4 Vocab Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. - unusually hot area in Earth’s mantle where high-temperature plumes of mantle material rise toward the surface
  2. - instrument used to measure horizontal or vertical motion during an earthquake
  3. - huge pieces of Earth’s crust that cover its surface and fit together at their edges
  4. - steep-sided, generally small volcano that is built by the accumulation of tephra around the vent
  5. - Wegener’s hypothesis that Earth’s continents were joined as a single landmass that broke apart about 200 million years ago and slowly moved to their present positions
  6. - fracture or system of fractures in Earth’s crust that occur when stress is applied too quickly or stress is too great
  7. - a substance’s internal resistance to flow
  8. - place where two tectonic plates are moving toward each other
  9. - the transfer of thermal energy by the movement of heated material from one place to another
  10. - the hypothesis that new ocean crust is formed at mid-ocean ridges and destroyed at deep-sea trenches
  11. - process by which one tectonic plate slips beneath another tectonic plate
  12. - seismic wave that squeezes and pushes rocks in the same direction that the wave travels; first seismic waves to arrive
  13. - place where two of Earth’s tectonic plates are moving apart
  14. - process associated with seismic vibrations that occur in areas of sand that is nearly saturated; resulting in the ground behaving like a liquid
Down
  1. - broad volcano with gently sloping sides built by nonexplosive eruptions of basaltic lava that accumulates in layers
  2. - long, narrow depression that forms when continental crust begins to separate at a divergent boundary
  3. - ancient landmass made up of all the continents that began to break apart about 200 million years ago
  4. - point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  5. - generally cone-shaped with concave slopes; built by violent eruptions of volcanic fragments and lava that accumulate in alternating layers
  6. - seismic wave that causes rock particles to move at right angles to the direction of the wave; second seismic waves to arrive
  7. - a tube-like structure that allows lava to reach the surface
  8. - describes all the processes associated with the discharge of magma, hot water, and steam
  9. - vibrations of the ground during an earthquake
  10. - size of the seismic waves
  11. - point of the initial fault rupture where an earthquake originates that usually lies at least several kilometers beneath Earth’s surface
  12. - swift-moving, potentially deadly clouds of gas, ash, and other volcanic material produced by a violent eruption
  13. - place where two tectonic plates slide horizontally past each other
  14. - bowl-shaped depression that forms around the central vent at the summit of a volcano
  15. - opening in Earth’s crust through which lava erupts and flow out onto the surface
  16. - long crack in Earth’s crust
  17. - large crater, up to 100 km in diameter, that can form when the summit or side of a volcano collapses into the magma chamber during or after an eruption
  18. - measure of the energy released during an earthquake

32 Clues: - size of the seismic waves • - long crack in Earth’s crust • - a substance’s internal resistance to flow • - vibrations of the ground during an earthquake • - measure of the energy released during an earthquake • - a tube-like structure that allows lava to reach the surface • - place where two of Earth’s tectonic plates are moving apart • ...

Chapter 1 and 2 (pages 19-42) Key Terms 2026-02-04

Chapter 1 and 2 (pages 19-42) Key Terms crossword puzzle
Across
  1. (Page 41) Rock that was once broken apart but has been melted together through heat and compaction
  2. (Page 32) Landform _________, events like tsunamis, earthquakes, or natural events caused by the earth
  3. (Page 35) Plate ____________ is the theory of the world being broken up into different segments of earth
  4. (Page 28) Type of settlement pattern where houses and people live far away from one another
  5. (Page 41) Sediments need ___________ to be turned into metamorphic rock
  6. (Page 42) Rock created by sedimentary rock melting and experiencing huge pressure
  7. (Page 40) Sedimentary rock that is buried underground eventually experiences ___________ and becomes metamorphic rock
  8. (Page 25) ____________ Ecumene, when urban areas are broken up by physical areas
  9. (Page 38) A type of tectonic plate that is primarily on the land
  10. (Page 26) Rural/small towns are currently
  11. (Page 21) The acronym for Canadian Metropolitan Area
  12. (Page 28) The word used for country areas where there are less people per square kilometre
  13. (Page 26) Many people are leaving small towns in Canada due to poor ____ opportunities, so they go to the cities
  14. (Page 19) Alongside the word "population" it means the amount of people in a particular area of space
  15. (Page 40) This pures out of the earth's crust through volcanic eruptions and created igneous rock
  16. (Page 37) Mid-Atlantic ________ is the most famous example of this but there are many around the world at divergent tectonic plates
  17. (Page 28) Type of settlement pattern that follows a line like along a railroad or highway or river
  18. (Page 37) When two plates move towards one another
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  1. (Page 40) Igneous rocks formed by exposure to the earth's surface are called
  2. (Page 40) Sedimentary and Metamorphic rock need this to be created, but it is not good for small children
  3. (Page 39) When two plates rub alongside eachother
  4. (Page 25) _________ Ecumene, when urban areas continue with no break or gaps
  5. (Page 40) The _____ Cycle is caused by and impacts plate tectonics and supposedly creates mountains
  6. (Page 41) Igneous rock is worn down through weathering and _____________ which creates sediments
  7. (Page 40) When exposed to this children often cry, but sedimentary rocks will melt
  8. (Page 31) The word used to describe when a city or settlement grows beyond its bounds/limits and begins taking over farm/wild land
  9. (Page 37) When two plates move away from one another
  10. (Page 25) A fancy geography word for inhabited area
  11. (Page 40) Rock created by magma moving to the surface and hardening due to the air
  12. (Page 38) A type of tectonic plate that is primarily in the ocean
  13. (Page 37) The process of one tectonic plate being pulled under the other
  14. (Page 31) The biggest type of land under threat from urban sprawl
  15. (Page 28) Type of settlement pattern where people are nucleated in patches around on central industry
  16. (Page 28) ________ System is used in most of Canada to plot land in a grid formation?
  17. (Page 34) The most recent ice age and current period of earth's history according to secular historians

35 Clues: (Page 26) Rural/small towns are currently • (Page 39) When two plates rub alongside eachother • (Page 37) When two plates move towards one another • (Page 25) A fancy geography word for inhabited area • (Page 37) When two plates move away from one another • (Page 21) The acronym for Canadian Metropolitan Area • ...

SAT Vocab 1 2021-03-09

SAT Vocab 1 crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The Divergent series by Veronica Roth, individuals were separated into 4 categories. Amity, Erudite, Abnegation, Candor, and _____
  2. Tom and Jerry often exhibited skills this form
Down
  1. If you were in a debate, your opponent may be described as
  2. Teachers may often wish for you to hold ethics regarding _____

4 Clues: Tom and Jerry often exhibited skills this form • If you were in a debate, your opponent may be described as • Teachers may often wish for you to hold ethics regarding _____ • The Divergent series by Veronica Roth, individuals were separated into 4 categories. Amity, Erudite, Abnegation, Candor, and _____

Earthquakes and Volcanoes- Tic Tac Know Plate Tectonics Project 2023-01-04

Earthquakes and Volcanoes- Tic Tac Know Plate Tectonics Project crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The layer of rock that forms the Earth's outer surface
  2. deep canyon on the ocean floor
  3. Theory that pieces of the Earth's lithosphere are in motion,driven by convection currents in the mantle
  4. German Scientist who developed the Theory of the Continental Drift in 1912
  5. The undersea mountain mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary
  6. A break or crack in the Earth's lithosphere along which rocks move
  7. Thickest layer of the Earth; it consists of two layers-the lithosphere and the asthenosphere
  8. A soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats
  9. The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
  10. The name of the single landmass that broke apart about 225 million years ago
Down
  1. Alfred Wegener's hypothesis that the continents were once one huge land mass but have since then drifted apart
  2. Dense ball of solid material at the center of he Earth
  3. A deep valley where two plates move apart(2 words)
  4. A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust
  5. A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of the Earth

15 Clues: deep canyon on the ocean floor • A deep valley where two plates move apart(2 words) • The layer of rock that forms the Earth's outer surface • Dense ball of solid material at the center of he Earth • A soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats • A break or crack in the Earth's lithosphere along which rocks move • ...

Plate tectonics 2023-01-13

Plate tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Alfred Wegener's hypothesis that the continents were once one huge land mass but have since then drifted apart
  2. Theory that pieces of the Earth's lithosphere are in motion,driven by convection currents in the mantle
  3. A deep canyon on the ocean floor
  4. a layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of the Earth
  5. The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
  6. Cause the plates to move; between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere
  7. A plate boundary where two plates grind against each other, moving it different directions
  8. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
Down
  1. A break or crack in the Earth's lithosphere along which rocks move
  2. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other
  3. Dense ball of solid material at the center of he Earth
  4. Thickest layer of the Earth; it consists of two layers - the lithosphere and the asthenosphere
  5. A deep valley where two plates move apart
  6. The name of the single landmass that broke apart about 225 million years ago
  7. The undersea mountain mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary

15 Clues: A deep canyon on the ocean floor • A deep valley where two plates move apart • Dense ball of solid material at the center of he Earth • A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other • A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other • A break or crack in the Earth's lithosphere along which rocks move • ...

earthquakes & volcanoes 2023-01-13

earthquakes & volcanoes crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Dense ball of solid material at the center of he Earth
  2. plate that moves an inch every year.
  3. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other
  4. The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
  5. rumbling tectonic plate
Down
  1. Cause the plates to move; between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere
  2. a large mountain that builds up and releases ho
  3. Alfred Wegener's hypothesis that the continents were once one huge land mass but have since then drifted apart
  4. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
  5. Thickest layer of the Earth; it consists of two layers - the lithosphere and the asthenosphere
  6. Theory that pieces of the Earth's lithosphere are in motion,driven by convection currents in the mantle
  7. A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of the Earth
  8. The name of the single landmass that broke apart about 225 million years ago
  9. A plate boundary where two plates grind against each other, moving it different directions
  10. The undersea mountain mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary

15 Clues: rumbling tectonic plate • plate that moves an inch every year. • a large mountain that builds up and releases ho • Dense ball of solid material at the center of he Earth • A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other • A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other • Cause the plates to move; between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere • ...

Earth's Layers Vocab Test 2023-03-06

Earth's Layers Vocab Test crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The liquid outer layer of the core; made of liquid iron and nickel.
  2. When two tectonic plates move apart and create rift valleys
  3. a zone in the lithosphere that is being pulled apart
  4. The fastest wave; travels through solids and liquids; moves back and forth.
  5. the outermost part of the earth, including both the crust and upper mantle.
  6. The rocky outer layer of the Earth; the layer of the Earth above the mantle.
  7. When two tectonic plates rub up next to each other and cause earthquakes
  8. A supercontinent thousands of years ago that included all of the continents on Earth.
  9. Broken pieces made of the Earth's crust that move to create landmasses like mountains, valleys, and earthquakes
Down
  1. When two tectonic plates come together and form mountains or volcanoes
  2. The downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
  3. the layer of the Earth between the crust and the core.
  4. Moves up and down or side to side; travels only through solids
  5. The solid inner layer of the core. Lies at the center of the Earth
  6. Cracks in the earth's crust where there is movement

15 Clues: Cracks in the earth's crust where there is movement • a zone in the lithosphere that is being pulled apart • the layer of the Earth between the crust and the core. • When two tectonic plates move apart and create rift valleys • Moves up and down or side to side; travels only through solids • The solid inner layer of the core. Lies at the center of the Earth • ...

Unit 7 Project 2017-01-25

Unit 7 Project crossword puzzle
Across
  1. Currents-Caused by very hot hot material at the deepest part of the mantle rising then cooling,sinking again then heating rising and repeating
  2. Core-A sphere of hot solid metal
  3. Plate-Occurs when two plates move towards each other and collide
  4. Plate-Earth's surface is broken into large pieces that move over the asthenosphere
  5. the plates of the lithosphere float or slide a top, a thin semi-solid layer in the upper mantle
  6. layer of solid rock that surrounds the Earths surface
  7. Core- Liquid metal that surrounds the Inner Corenner Core-A sphere of hot solid metal
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  1. Plate-Occurs when two plates slide past each other
  2. of Plate Tectonics-Scientific theory explaining how the pates move on Earth's surface
  3. thick layer that surrounds the core and is made up of hot but mostly sold material
  4. Plates-Thick plates made of andesite and granite that form the Earth
  5. Plate-Occurs when two plates move away from each other
  6. Continent
  7. most layer of the Earth made of the crust of the solid portion of the upper mantle
  8. Plates-Thin plates that are made of baseaet that form the ocean floor and are denser that continental plates

15 Clues: Continent • Core-A sphere of hot solid metal • Plate-Occurs when two plates slide past each other • layer of solid rock that surrounds the Earths surface • Plate-Occurs when two plates move away from each other • Plate-Occurs when two plates move towards each other and collide • Plates-Thick plates made of andesite and granite that form the Earth • ...

Things I have learned this year--Crossword 2022-02-28

Things I have learned this year--Crossword crossword puzzle
Across
  1. boundary : A boundary that forms MId ocean mountain ranges,Volcanoes under the sea (island formation),earthquakes.
  2. : the transfer of thermal energy from a warmer object to a cooler object.
  3. : The chemical and physical process that breaks down rocks and other substances.
  4. rock : A type of rock that forms from the cooling of molten rock at or below the surface.
  5. rock : A type of rock that forms from an existing rock that is changed by heat,pressure or chemical reaction.
  6. : Liquid magma that reaches the surface.
  7. : Small,solid pieces of material remains of organisms,earth materials deposited by erosion
  8. : A weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface.
Down
  1. boundary : A boundary that forms volcanoes,mountain ranges earthquakes deep under the surface.
  2. : the force pushing on a surface divided by the area of the surface.
  3. : The molten mixture of rock forming substances gases and water from the mantle.
  4. : the process in which sediment is laid down in a new location.
  5. : Igneous rock that forms from lava on earth surface.
  6. boundary :A boundary that forms earthquakes.
  7. rock : A type of rock that you might find a fossil in.

15 Clues: boundary :A boundary that forms earthquakes. • : Liquid magma that reaches the surface. • : Igneous rock that forms from lava on earth surface. • rock : A type of rock that you might find a fossil in. • : the process in which sediment is laid down in a new location. • : A weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface. • ...

Plate Tectonics 2023-12-15

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
Across
  1. The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
  2. A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
  3. Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus
  4. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
  5. The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.
  6. The German meteorologist who developed the theory of Continental drift.
  7. Stress that stretches rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle.
  8. The point beneath Earth's surface where rock first breaks under stress and causes an earthquake
  9. a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock
Down
  1. The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface.
  2. The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface.
  3. The movement of a fluid, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another.
  4. Stress that pushes masses of rock in opposite directions, in a sideways movement.
  5. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
  6. Stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks

15 Clues: Stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks • A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other. • a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock • A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other. • Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus • ...

vocab 2024-05-22

vocab crossword puzzle
Across
  1. a type of communication that does not use a word's strict or realistic meaning.
  2. state or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof.
  3. be a warning or indication of (a future event).
  4. consists of the author telling the audience what a character is like.
  5. an implied or indirect reference to a person
  6. a type of literary device that reveals details about a character without stating them explicitly.
  7. an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.
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  1. the literal or primary meaning of a word, in contrast to the feelings or ideas that the word suggests.
  2. a part of a story or movie that describes or shows something that happened in the past
  3. a claim made to rebut a previous claim.
  4. an account of someone's life written by someone else.
  5. given to expressing divergent or opposite views.
  6. a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
  7. the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
  8. a comparison between two things

15 Clues: a comparison between two things • a claim made to rebut a previous claim. • an implied or indirect reference to a person • be a warning or indication of (a future event). • given to expressing divergent or opposite views. • an account of someone's life written by someone else. • the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing. • ...

G7 - Earth's Crust Vocab. 2023-03-02

G7 - Earth's Crust Vocab. crossword puzzle
Across
  1. A rock that forms from compressed or cemented layers of sediment
  2. When one plate slips under the other due to differences in their density
  3. Rock that has been changed by heat and pressure
  4. A physical feature on Earth's surface (ex: mountains or canyons)
  5. Sections of the crust located under the oceans and seas... usually younger than other sections of crust, and made mostly of basalt
  6. Boundary that occurs where plates slide PAST each other... causes earthquakes
  7. Process in which eroded material (sediment) is laid down in new locations
  8. The layer of hot, semi-solid material between Earth's crust and core.
  9. Not formed from living things or the remains of living things
  10. Molten rock beneath the earth's surface
  11. The layer of rock that forms Earth's outer surface.
  12. A type of fuel that forms from the ancient remains of decomposed plants and animals (2 words)
  13. Boundary that occurs where two plates slide TOWARD each other... forms mountains and volcanoes
  14. A German scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift (2 words)
  15. The color of a mineral in powdered form... found by rubbing the mineral on an unglazed porcelain plate
  16. The formation of new crust at an ocean-ocean divergent boundary, as a result of magma pushing upward and outward from Earth's mantle to the surface (2 words)
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  1. The location where two tectonic plates meet. (2 words)
  2. Sections of the crust that form landmasses... tend to be older than other sections of the crust, and made mostly of granite
  3. Igneous rock that forms when magma rises up and cools in a place underground (2 words)
  4. Processes by which rock, sand, and soil are broken down and carried away due to weathering
  5. The process of rock being broken down by abrasion (ex: different types of weather, moving air, water, sand, glaciers, ice formation, etc.) (2 words)
  6. A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of Earth (2 words)
  7. A scale ranking minerals from 1 (softest) to 10 (hardest) (3 words)
  8. The process that breaks down or dissolves rock through chemical reactions (ex: acid in geothermal areas, oxidation, etc.) (2 words)
  9. The process in which rocks are created, changed, destroyed, and formed again (2 words)
  10. A naturally occurring, inorganic solid that has a definite chemical composition and an orderly arrangement of atoms
  11. When weight from layers of sediment forces out fluids and air, decreasing the space between sediments
  12. Rock that forms when magma cools above the surface of Earth, usually as a result of a volcano... sometimes has holes from escaping gas (2 words)
  13. The gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface (2 words)
  14. Magma that reaches Earth's surface
  15. Sections of the Earth's crust that move due to convection currents. (2 words)
  16. A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of Earth (2 words)
  17. Boundary that occurs where two plates slide AWAY from each other... forms valleys and sea-floor spreading
  18. The way a mineral reflects light
  19. The hardest known mineral

35 Clues: The hardest known mineral • The way a mineral reflects light • Magma that reaches Earth's surface • Molten rock beneath the earth's surface • Rock that has been changed by heat and pressure • The layer of rock that forms Earth's outer surface. • The location where two tectonic plates meet. (2 words) • Not formed from living things or the remains of living things • ...

Name: __________________________________________ Period: __________ Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle (answers found in the plate tectonics reading packet or in your notes) 2025-03-18

Name: __________________________________________ Period: __________ Continental Drift and Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle (answers found in the plate tectonics reading packet or in your notes) crossword puzzle
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  1. This chain of volcanoes is a common result when two oceanic plates collide together at a convergent boundary.
  2. This very familiar structure forms when magma pushes its way up from the mantle, occasionally erupting and causing lava to spill out onto the land.
  3. The deepest parts of the ocean floor, these occur in the subduction zone when an oceanic plate collides with a continental plate or when two oceanic plates collide.
  4. This is heat moving through a fluid, also driven by density.
  5. The name of the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago when all of the Earth’s landmasses were one.
  6. The Navy Officer who discovered Seafloor Spreading.
  7. The lithosphere is broke into chunks called _____________ that slowly move around on top of the asthenosphere.
  8. The type of plate boundary that involves two tectonic plates grinding past each other, not hitting head on or moving apart.
  9. This landform is a common result of two continental plates colliding together at a convergent boundary.
  10. Alfred Wegener had a _______________ of how continents moved. The reason that it was not a theory is because he could not provide a mechanism.
  11. ___________________ is the process of the ocean getting wider at the mid-ocean ridges as magma rises up and cools to form new crust, pushing the older crust further away.
  12. This meteorologist and arctic explorer developed the hypothesis of continental drift and spent his life looking for the mechanisms that drove it.
  13. The name of the theory that describes the movements and collisions of the lithosphere’s plates as they float around.
  14. The name of the layer of the mantle that is fluid enough for the solid lithosphere (the layer just above it) to float around on it.
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  1. The type of plate boundary that involves two tectonic plates moving apart from each other.
  2. The type of plate boundary that involves two tectonic plates colliding together.
  3. Alfred Wegener’s hypothesis which states that the continents used to all be joined together but that they have drifted apart over time to where they are today.
  4. An underwater mountain range commonly found at divergent plate boundaries. These are the locations where seafloor spreading takes place.
  5. The name of the area where one tectonic plate gets pulled down underneath another in convergent plate boundaries.
  6. The type of crust that is lighter and less dense when compared to its oceanic counterpart
  7. The layer of Earth that the “plates” are made of. It includes the crust and the solid top portion of the mantle.
  8. This technology uses sound waves to map out an underwater surface or to detect underwater objects and was very important in the discovery of mid-ocean ridges.
  9. A force that holds objects together and keeps us from floating away. One of the driving forces of plate tectonics.
  10. This event is a common occurrence at all types of plate boundaries, caused by the sudden release of a buildup of energy in the rocks at plate boundaries.

24 Clues: The Navy Officer who discovered Seafloor Spreading. • This is heat moving through a fluid, also driven by density. • The type of plate boundary that involves two tectonic plates colliding together. • The type of crust that is lighter and less dense when compared to its oceanic counterpart • ...

Thomas's Earths Layers and Plate Tectonics Crossword 2026-02-03

Thomas's Earths Layers and Plate Tectonics Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. Alfred Wegener's theory that the continents are moving
  2. Heat transfer in the mantle that drive plate motion due to density differences
  3. A crust made of granitic rock
  4. The shaking of the earth that results from two plates sliding past each other
  5. A supercontinent that existed 250 million years ago where all of Earths continents were one big landmass
  6. Melted by heat
  7. Stands for Sound Navigation and Ranging
  8. A crust made of basaltic rock
  9. A undersea valley that represents one of the deepest parts of the ocean
  10. A type of dark, igneous rock that records Earths magnetic polarity at the time it forms
  11. A chain of volcanoes that forms when two continental plates converge
  12. Solid and not easy to bend
  13. Vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake
  14. A female geologist and oceanographer who mapped the ocean floor with sonar mapping to help dicover the Mid Atlantc Ridge
  15. A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of the earth
  16. A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of Earth
  17. The study of Earths magnetic polarity, as recorded in rocks that are high in iron
  18. When Earths magnetic field flips
  19. The theory that all of the continents are moving
  20. Earths layers that are classified by how the rock moves.
  21. Type of basalt that forms mounds at mid ocean ridges.
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  1. A type of igneous rock that is light colored
  2. The layer of hot, solid material between Earth's crust and core
  3. The rigid outer layer of the Earth that is made of the crust and upper mantle.
  4. Able to change form permanently without cracking
  5. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
  6. A chain of volcanic island formed when two oceanic plates converge
  7. A plate boundary where two plates slide past each other in opposite directions.
  8. Layers that are separated based off of what they are made of
  9. A layer of Earths interior located bellow the asthenosphere and above the outer core.
  10. The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
  11. The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent
  12. A part of Earths crust that floats on the mantle.
  13. He was the first person to suggest Continental Drift or more commonly known as Plate Tectonics
  14. A plate boundary where two plates move towards each other
  15. A iron-rich mineral found in igneous rocks, sediments, and sedimentary rocks.
  16. The layer of rock the forms Earths outer crust
  17. Layer in the upper mantle that is hot and semiliquid but is underneath the Lithosphere
  18. A molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle.
  19. A crack or split in Earths crust caused by a divergent boundary.
  20. An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary under the ocean

41 Clues: Melted by heat • Solid and not easy to bend • A crust made of granitic rock • A crust made of basaltic rock • When Earths magnetic field flips • Stands for Sound Navigation and Ranging • A type of igneous rock that is light colored • The layer of rock the forms Earths outer crust • Able to change form permanently without cracking • ...

Transfer and Problem Solving 2023-03-07

Transfer and Problem Solving crossword puzzle
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  1. a type of problem where the goal is clearly stated, all information needed to solve the problem is present, and only one correct answer exists
  2. a general problem-solving strategy that may or may not yield a successful outcome
  3. a thinking process of generating many ideas from a single starting point
  4. a specific sequence of steps that guarantees a correct solution
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  1. a type of problem where the desired goal is unclear, information needed to solve the problem is missing, or several possible solutions exists
  2. the extent to which knowledge and skills acquired in one situation affect a person's learning or performance in a subsequent situation
  3. a form of transfer, because it involves applying previously learned knowledge or skills to a new situation
  4. mentally representing a problem
  5. a type of strategy that includes behaviors we can actually see
  6. a type of strategy that is an internal mental process we can often times not see

10 Clues: mentally representing a problem • a type of strategy that includes behaviors we can actually see • a specific sequence of steps that guarantees a correct solution • a thinking process of generating many ideas from a single starting point • a type of strategy that is an internal mental process we can often times not see • ...

III DAY 1 2023-05-02

III DAY 1 crossword puzzle
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  1. Work as a claim that outlines the problem addressed by a study.
  2. Not merely a summary of your points or a re-statement of your research problem but a synthesis of key points.
  3. Variable that stands alone and isn't changed by the other variables you are trying to measure
  4. A non-probability sampling method where new units are recruited by other units to form part of the sample.
  5. A statement of expectation or prediction that will be tested by research.
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  1. The study of the nature of phenomena
  2. Focuses on numeric and unchanging data and detailed, convergent reasoning rather than divergent reasoning
  3. One of the founding principles of research ethics.
  4. These variables are expected to change as a result of an experimental manipulation of the independent variable or variables.
  5. Defined as a relationship that is built on mutual interest, support, and understanding. It is often viewed as an essential element of research assessments.

10 Clues: The study of the nature of phenomena • One of the founding principles of research ethics. • Work as a claim that outlines the problem addressed by a study. • A statement of expectation or prediction that will be tested by research. • Variable that stands alone and isn't changed by the other variables you are trying to measure • ...

Seafloor Spreading Vocabulary 2023-10-14

Seafloor Spreading Vocabulary crossword puzzle
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  1. Melted or molten rock material beneath Earth's surface; cools slowly to form rocks with larger crystals
  2. The process in which a denser plate is pushed downward beneath a less dense plate when plates converge
  3. A place where two tectonic plates move away from each other
  4. Huge pieces of crust that slowly move on the upper part of the mantle
  5. A depression of Earth's surface in which an ocean lies
  6. A phenomenon by which magma from Earth's mantle comes up at the mid-ocean ridge and creates new oceanic crust
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  1. Molten rock, or magma, that has reached Earth's surface by volcanic action
  2. An underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics; the largest single volcanic feature on Earth
  3. The thin, solid, outermost layer of Earth; is either continental (landmasses) or oceanic (ocean floors)
  4. Deep and narrow depression in the seafloor where the subducted plate moves into the asthenosphere

10 Clues: A depression of Earth's surface in which an ocean lies • A place where two tectonic plates move away from each other • Huge pieces of crust that slowly move on the upper part of the mantle • Molten rock, or magma, that has reached Earth's surface by volcanic action • ...

Guess the Book Title 2024-04-26

Guess the Book Title crossword puzzle
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  1. A 16-year-old takes a test, which doesn't go so well. She changes her name. Her Parents help her out when her friends are drugged.
  2. Three sisters get along slightly better than their loved ones want them to.
  3. A girl loses a friend but makes several others in detention.
  4. A girl gets a job at a castle, then gets a promotion she doesn't deserve.
  5. A middle-aged man becomes dangerously obsessed with a young girl.
  6. Fresh from prison, a young woman has to play a game to get a new job. She's given a dog. She finds a clock with a door.
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  1. Which 20th-century classic was almost called Under the Red, White, and Blue?
  2. What book was originally called Something That Happened?
  3. Boy meets girl. Boy plays some killer music. Girl wants to be like her dad, and boy wants to be like everyone else.
  4. The last man in Europe would eventually be called...

10 Clues: The last man in Europe would eventually be called... • What book was originally called Something That Happened? • A girl loses a friend but makes several others in detention. • A middle-aged man becomes dangerously obsessed with a young girl. • A girl gets a job at a castle, then gets a promotion she doesn't deserve. • ...

Earth Science CW 1 2026-04-13

Earth Science CW 1 crossword puzzle
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  1. the rule that a fault or intrusion is younger than the rock it cuts through
  2. an opening in Earth’s crust where magma, ash, and gases can escape
  3. the process in which new ocean crust forms at a mid-ocean ridge
  4. the layers of rock, fossils, and other evidence that show Earth’s history
  5. melted rock beneath Earth’s surface
  6. a place where magma rises through a plate and can form volcanoes away from boundaries
  7. a valley formed when land pulls apart at a divergent boundary
  8. a large ocean wave caused by undersea plate movement or earthquakes
  9. a sudden shaking of Earth caused by movement of tectonic plates or faults
  10. the shape and elevation features of Earth’s surface
  11. the age of a rock or fossil compared with another, not the exact age
  12. a plate boundary where two plates move apart
  13. a geologic process that wears away or breaks down Earth’s surface
  14. a plate boundary where two plates slide past each other
  15. a fossil used to match rock layers because it is widespread but found in only one time period
  16. a break in Earth’s crust where movement has occurred
  17. the circular movement of heated material that helps move tectonic plates
  18. Earth’s thin outer solid layer
  19. a deep valley in the ocean floor usually formed at a convergent boundary
  20. the rigid outer layer made of the crust and uppermost mantle
  21. the liquid layer of Earth that surrounds the inner core
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  1. the rule that in undisturbed rock layers, the oldest layer is on the bottom
  2. preserved remains or evidence of an organism from the past
  3. the process in which denser materials sink and lighter materials rise, forming layers
  4. a wave of energy that travels through Earth and helps scientists study Earth’s interior
  5. the idea that geologic processes happening now also happened in the past
  6. the idea that continents were once joined and slowly moved apart over time
  7. the breakdown of rock into smaller pieces at Earth’s surface
  8. the process in which sediment is dropped and builds up in a new place
  9. how much mass is packed into a certain amount of space
  10. the soft, flowing layer of the upper mantle where convection currents move
  11. a large moving mass of ice that shapes Earth’s surface
  12. magnetic evidence in rocks that supports seafloor spreading and plate tectonics
  13. the actual age of a rock or fossil, often determined by radiometric dating
  14. the thick middle layer of Earth between the crust and core
  15. a depositional landform formed where a river slows and drops sediment
  16. a plate boundary where two plates move toward each other
  17. the center layer of Earth made of the outer core and inner core
  18. a geologic process that builds up Earth’s surface, such as deposition
  19. the movement of weathered rock and sediment from one place to another
  20. the solid innermost layer of Earth
  21. the theory that Earth’s lithosphere is broken into plates that move
  22. an underwater mountain chain formed at a divergent boundary

43 Clues: Earth’s thin outer solid layer • the solid innermost layer of Earth • melted rock beneath Earth’s surface • a plate boundary where two plates move apart • the shape and elevation features of Earth’s surface • a break in Earth’s crust where movement has occurred • how much mass is packed into a certain amount of space • ...

Plate Tectonics 2021-12-09

Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
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  1. what is melted Rock which stays under the earths surface called?
  2. What are the slabs of rock which ride on convection currents called?
  3. what is the theory that the continents are moving with 6 pieces of evidence supporting it?
  4. what is the theory that new crust is formed at ridges in the ocean floor?
  5. What plate boundary is the main cause of sea floor spreading?
  6. what happens when an ocean plate and Continental plate converge?
  7. what is the middle part of the mantle which also holds the convection currents called?
  8. what is formed from magma getting stuck in the crust? this also erupts.
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  1. Which plate boundary causes mountains to form?
  2. what are the currents of which the plates themselves ride on?
  3. What is formed when 2 continental plates collide into each other?
  4. Which layer are the plates composed of?
  5. what is a major sign subduction is happening and is found in the ocean?
  6. what theory combines both theories of Sea floor spreading and continental drift, showing how the plates move and the different ways they do it?
  7. what is melted rock which is on top of the earths surface called?

15 Clues: Which layer are the plates composed of? • Which plate boundary causes mountains to form? • what are the currents of which the plates themselves ride on? • What plate boundary is the main cause of sea floor spreading? • what is melted Rock which stays under the earths surface called? • what happens when an ocean plate and Continental plate converge? • ...

Tic Tac Know 2022-01-21

Tic Tac Know crossword puzzle
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  1. The name of the single landmass that broke apart about 225 million years ago
  2. Thickest layer of the Earth; it consists of two layers - the lithosphere and the asthenosphere
  3. Theory that pieces of the Earth's lithosphere are in motion,driven by convection currents in the mantle
  4. A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of the Earth
  5. A deep valley where two plates move apart
  6. The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
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  1. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other
  2. Cause the plates to move; between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere
  3. The undersea mountain mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary
  4. A deep canyon on the ocean floor
  5. Alfred Wegener's hypothesis that the continents were once one huge land mass but have since then drifted apart
  6. A plate boundary where two plates grind against each other, moving it different directions
  7. Dense ball of solid material at the center of the Earth
  8. A break or crack in the Earth's lithosphere along which rocks move
  9. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other

15 Clues: A deep canyon on the ocean floor • A deep valley where two plates move apart • Dense ball of solid material at the center of the Earth • A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other • A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other • A break or crack in the Earth's lithosphere along which rocks move • ...

Living with Tectonic Hazards: Lessons 1 & 2 2013-04-15

Living with Tectonic Hazards: Lessons 1 & 2 crossword puzzle
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  1. A mountain range that's formed by the convergence of the Indian and the Eurasian plates
  2. Naturally occurring event that threatens human lives and causes damage to property
  3. A destructive zone where plates collide
  4. The descent of the edge of an oceanic plate under the edge of an adjoining plate
  5. A type of crust that is located beneath the Earth's land masses and under shallow seas close to the continents
  6. A constructive zone where oceanic-oceanic plates move apart to form new seafloor
  7. A plate which collides with the Philippine plate to form the Marianna Trench
  8. A deep depression that's perpendicular to the point of subduction
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  1. Consists of the crust and the uppermost mantle
  2. A ridge that's formed when the North American plate moves away from the Eurasian plate
  3. A chain of volcanic islands that's associated with an oceanic-oceanic plate subduction
  4. A type of crust that is located beneath deep oceans and is made up of heavy rocks such as basalt
  5. A force that is generated by the subduction proceess
  6. Current created by the movement of heat within the mantle
  7. A boundary where plates slide past each other, creating a zone of horizontal displacement

15 Clues: A destructive zone where plates collide • Consists of the crust and the uppermost mantle • A force that is generated by the subduction proceess • Current created by the movement of heat within the mantle • A deep depression that's perpendicular to the point of subduction • A plate which collides with the Philippine plate to form the Marianna Trench • ...

Unit 7 Project 2017-01-25

Unit 7 Project crossword puzzle
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  1. Core-A sphere of hot solid metal
  2. Plates-Thick plates made of andesite and granite that form the Earth
  3. Plate-Occurs when two plates slide past each other
  4. Currents-Caused by very hot hot material at the deepest part of the mantle rising then cooling,sinking again then heating rising and repeating
  5. the plates of the lithosphere float or slide a top, a thin semi-solid layer in the upper mantle
  6. Plate-Occurs when two plates move away from each other
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  1. Plate-Earth's surface is broken into large pieces that move over the asthenosphere
  2. most layer of the Earth made of the crust of the solid portion of the upper mantle
  3. Continent
  4. Core- Liquid metal that surrounds the Inner Corenner Core-A sphere of hot solid metal
  5. Plates-Thin plates that are made of baseaet that form the ocean floor and are denser that continental plates
  6. thick layer that surrounds the core and is made up of hot but mostly sold material
  7. Plate-Occurs when two plates move towards each other and collide
  8. of Plate Tectonics-Scientific theory explaining how the pates move on Earth's surface
  9. layer of solid rock that surrounds the Earths surface

15 Clues: Continent • Core-A sphere of hot solid metal • Plate-Occurs when two plates slide past each other • layer of solid rock that surrounds the Earths surface • Plate-Occurs when two plates move away from each other • Plate-Occurs when two plates move towards each other and collide • Plates-Thick plates made of andesite and granite that form the Earth • ...

Science crossword 2023-01-13

Science crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. A plate boundary where two plates grind against each other, moving it different directions
  2. A break or crack in the Earth's lithosphere along which rocks move
  3. A deep valley where two plates move apart
  4. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
  5. Cause the plates to move; between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere
  6. Alfred Wegener's hypothesis that the continents were once one huge land mass but have since then drifted apart
  7. The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary
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  1. The name of the single landmass that broke apart about 225 million years ago
  2. The undersea mountain mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary
  3. A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of the Earth
  4. Dense ball of solid material at the center of he Earth
  5. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other
  6. The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
  7. A deep canyon on the ocean floor
  8. Thickest layer of the Earth; it consists of two layers - the lithosphere and the asthenosphere

15 Clues: A deep canyon on the ocean floor • A deep valley where two plates move apart • Dense ball of solid material at the center of he Earth • A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other • A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other • A break or crack in the Earth's lithosphere along which rocks move • ...

Tectonic Plate Vocabulary 2024-11-17

Tectonic Plate Vocabulary crossword puzzle
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  1. A type of plate boundary where two plates move apart from each other.
  2. A region where one tectonic plate slides beneath another, often creating earthquakes and volcanoes.
  3. An underwater mountain range formed by divergent boundaries, where new oceanic crust forms.
  4. A mountain range formed by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates.
  5. A type of plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
  6. A region around the Pacific Ocean with many volcanoes and earthquakes.
  7. The rigid outer layer of the Earth, which includes the crust and upper mantle.
  8. The theory that continents have slowly moved to their current positions over time.
  9. A mountain that forms when hot magma from inside the Earth escapes to the surface.
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  1. Large pieces of the Earth's crust that move over the surface.
  2. Heat-driven movements in the mantle that help move tectonic plates.
  3. The softer, semi-liquid layer beneath the lithosphere where tectonic plates move.
  4. A shaking of the ground caused by the sudden movement of tectonic plates.
  5. A crack in the Earth’s crust where tectonic plates move past each other.
  6. A type of plate boundary where two plates slide past each other.

15 Clues: Large pieces of the Earth's crust that move over the surface. • A type of plate boundary where two plates slide past each other. • A type of plate boundary where two plates move toward each other. • Heat-driven movements in the mantle that help move tectonic plates. • A type of plate boundary where two plates move apart from each other. • ...

Rock Cycle & Plate Tectonics 2025-11-10

Rock Cycle & Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
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  1. Wegener, This scientist believed all continents were once a large landmass.
  2. These are directly responsible for the texture of rocks and can be rounded or jagged.
  3. The downward movement of one of Earth's plates beneath another one.
  4. An area where two or more tectonic plates move on a collision course.
  5. Currents, The movement of fluid cause by differences in temperature.
  6. This is determined by the size shape and pattern of its grains.
  7. A natural mixture of sand gravel and crushed stone.
  8. An area where two plates slide past each other in opposite directions.
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  1. Rock, After millions of years of heat and pressure it will change existing rock into a different type of stone.
  2. Tuzo Wilson, This scientist observed cracks in the continents similar to the ones that had already been discovered on the ocean floor.
  3. Rock, The process of compaction and cementation form these sand particles into stone.
  4. An area where two or more tectonic plates move away from one another.
  5. Composition, This is what determines the color of all rock types.
  6. Rock, The most common and fastest forming rock type on Earth.
  7. Cycle, This process shows the basic relationships among igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.

15 Clues: A natural mixture of sand gravel and crushed stone. • Rock, The most common and fastest forming rock type on Earth. • This is determined by the size shape and pattern of its grains. • Composition, This is what determines the color of all rock types. • The downward movement of one of Earth's plates beneath another one. • ...

Rock Cycle & Plate Tectonics 2025-11-10

Rock Cycle & Plate Tectonics crossword puzzle
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  1. These are directly responsible for the texture of rocks and can be rounded or jagged.
  2. After millions of years of heat and pressure it will change existing rock into a different type of stone.
  3. The movement of fluid cause by differences in temperature.
  4. An area where two plates slide past each other in opposite directions.
  5. This process shows the basic relationships among igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.
  6. An area where two or more tectonic plates move away from one another.
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  1. This scientist observed cracks in the continents similar to the ones that had already been discovered on the ocean floor.
  2. The process of compaction and cementation form these sand particles into stone.
  3. An area where two or more tectonic plates move on a collision course.
  4. The downward movement of one of Earth's plates beneath another one.
  5. The most common and fastest forming rock type on Earth.
  6. This scientist believed all continents were once a large landmass.
  7. This is what determines the color of all rock types.
  8. This is determined by the size shape and pattern of its grains.
  9. A natural mixture of sand gravel and crushed stone.

15 Clues: A natural mixture of sand gravel and crushed stone. • This is what determines the color of all rock types. • The most common and fastest forming rock type on Earth. • The movement of fluid cause by differences in temperature. • This is determined by the size shape and pattern of its grains. • This scientist believed all continents were once a large landmass. • ...

Science Vocab Crossword 2026-01-12

Science Vocab Crossword crossword puzzle
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  1. the idea that the continents slowly moved over Earth's surface.
  2. where the Earth's lithosphere is broken into pieces separated by cracks.
  3. the transfer of thermal energy by the movement of a fluid.
  4. a plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions.
  5. any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock.
  6. the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
  7. a mountain that forms in Earth's crust when molten material or magma reaches the surface.
  8. a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
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  1. the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent boundary.
  2. a plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
  3. The molten mixture of water and sediment down a beach caused by waves coming in at an angle.
  4. when the continents were joined together in one supercontinent/landmass 300 million years ago.
  5. when magma reaches the surface.
  6. An area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust above.
  7. the transfer of thermal energy from one particle of matter to another.

15 Clues: when magma reaches the surface. • the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves. • a plate boundary where two plates move toward each other. • the transfer of thermal energy by the movement of a fluid. • a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other. • the idea that the continents slowly moved over Earth's surface. • ...