Ashley's lithosphere vocab
Across
- 4. rock that has cooled from molten state
- 6. an instrument that is used to record an earthquake
- 8. part of the magnetosphere and are also known as radiation belts
- 9. a metric unit of length
- 10. where plates crash into each other
- 11. organization of a planet’s layers
- 12. flow of charged particles from the sun
- 14. where two plates rub
- 18. protects the planet from radiation, surrounds the planet, and makes up the planets magnetic field
Down
- 1. the study of earth’s crust and processes that have shaped its surface throughout history
- 2. the mantle moves the plates as the core heats the slowly flowing asthenosphere
- 3. the thinnest layer of a planet
- 5. two plates move away from each other
- 7. lithosphere broken up into sections
- 13. bend
- 15. the thickest layer of aa planet
- 16. the center of a planet
- 17. a vibration or energy that travels through a planet