7E Planet Earth
Across
- 4. the replacement of a dead organisms's tissues with minerals
- 5. rock formed from the compaction and cementation of other small rocks and minerals
- 7. the shininess of a mineral
- 8. the name of the theory first proposed by Aldred Wegener (2 words)
- 10. downwards, U-shaped bends in the layers of the crust
- 14. the way a mineral breaks
- 15. wind or water picking up and carrying sediment away from a location
- 16. a solid, pure substance commonly found in Earth's crust
- 17. the layer of Earth responsible for creating Earth's magnetic field (2 words)
- 18. a plate boundary where plates are moving away from each other
- 19. layers of different rock forming the Earth's surface
- 20. rock that been created by intense heat and pressure
- 21. an extended break or crack in Earth's crust
- 25. rock formed from solidifed lava
- 27. how difficult a mineral is to scratch
- 30. a system of classifiying rock strata within different periods of Earth's history (3 words)
- 31. the study of Earth and the materials that make it up
Down
- 1. a section of Earth's crust (2 words)
- 2. the supercontinent that existed before the modern continents split apart
- 3. a fossil that is the actual remains of an ancient organism
- 5. when one tectonic plate is pushed beneath another plate at a converging boundary
- 6. mountains formed by the rising or dropping of crust along large cracks
- 9. a solid substance made from a combination of minerals
- 11. mountains formed from the scrunching of Earth's crust
- 12. a plate boundary where trenches are commonly found
- 13. the outermost layer of Earth
- 15. the sudden movement of a tectonic plate
- 16. the thickest layer of Earth
- 22. a fossil formed from the imprint of an ancient organism
- 23. the trace remains of an ancient organism
- 24. the scale used to describe the hardness of minerals
- 26. the layer of Earth made from solid iron and nickel (2 words)
- 28. a plate boundary where plates slide past each other
- 29. the scale used to measure the strength of earthquakes