8.9 ABC Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Plate division of the lithosphere that includes most of the landmasses of Europe and Asia.
  2. 6. parallel pattern of rock material found at identical locations across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Discovered by Harry Hess.
  3. 10. Tectonic plates that lie under surface land masses.
  4. 14. Difference in elevation between two adjacent contour lines of a topographic map.
  5. 16. The continents drifted on the water because fossils and land forms match up
  6. 19. When two plates slide past each other.
  7. 21. Solid fragments of weathered rock are eroded and then dropped into a new place.
  8. 23. When two plates move away from each other
  9. 24. Plate division of the lithosphere that includes the crust of India, Australia, and the ocean.
  10. 26. Photos or images from taken of Earth from space.
  11. 29. When a denser plate is pushed down and beneath a less dense plate.
  12. 30. Tectonic plates that are at the bottom of the ocean
  13. 31. Long crack in the surface of the Earth where earthquakes usually occur.
  14. 33. The study of many different kinds of Earth science.
  15. 34. Oceanic tectonic plate in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.
Down
  1. 1. Plate division of the lithosphere that includes the crust of South America extending to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
  2. 2. Plate division of the lithosphere that is composed entirely of oceanic crust under the Pacific ocean.
  3. 4. The amount of matter in a tectonic plate. Oceanic plates are a higher density than Continental plates.
  4. 5. Thicker line marking every 5th contour line of a map.
  5. 7. Huge pieces of lithosphere that move slowly and cause landforms.
  6. 8. Seafloor mountain system formed by divergent boundaries.
  7. 9. When two continental tectonic plates move towards each other and collide.
  8. 11. Line on a map that connects points with the same elevation.
  9. 12. Natural physical features of the earth's surface.
  10. 13. A super-continent of all of our continent together.
  11. 15. Plate division of the lithosphere that includes the crust of Greenland, North America, Siberia, and surrounding ocean.
  12. 17. Map showing the shape and elevation of the land surface using contour lines.
  13. 18. 2nd theory on the way continents move. Instead of continents moving it's something called tectonics plates.
  14. 20. Study of shape of Earth’s surface and its physical features.
  15. 22. Process by which water, ice, wind, and gravity removes and transports sediments.
  16. 25. Plate division of the lithosphere that includes the crust of Africa and the surrounding ocean crust.
  17. 27. Distance above sea level.
  18. 28. Plate division of the lithosphere the includes the crust of Antarctica and surrounding ocean.
  19. 32. processes that break rocks into smaller pieces mechanically or chemically.