Unit 5 vocab
Across
- 4. the process in which rock is physically broken into smaller pieces
- 5. a liquid resistance to flowing or the thickness of a liquid
- 7. a natural resource that is consumed faster or above the rate in which it is replaced
- 11. the transportation of material by a mobile agent such as wind water or ice
- 13. process by which plate tectonics produces new oceanic lithosphere at ocean ridges
- 17. formed from the weathered products of preexisting rocks
- 20. a plate boundary where two plates move toward each other
- 22. a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
- 24. rigid outer port of the earth
- 25. vibration that travel through earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake
- 26. a natural resource that can be replaced at the same or below rate at which the resource is consumed
Down
- 1. the process in which rock is broken down by chemical reactions changes the rocks molecular composition
- 2. magma that reaches earth surface
- 3. a plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
- 6. the point beneath earths surface where rock breaks under stress and causes an earthquake
- 8. a body of molten rock found at depth
- 9. a device that records ground movements caused by seismic waves
- 10. soft upper layer of the mantle below the lithosphere
- 12. the point on the earths surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
- 14. a concentration of heat in the mantle capable of producing magma which rises to the surface
- 15. a fracture in earth along which movements has occurred
- 16. a naturally occurring inorganic solid that has a crystal substance
- 18. rock formed by the crystallization of molten magma
- 19. loose particles created by weathering and erosion
- 21. a natural occurring solid mixture of one or more organic material
- 23. formed by the alteration of preexistiong solid deep within the earth