Changing Earth's Surface
Across
- 6. Scale, 1-10 Scale used to measure the strength of an earthquake
- 8. Plate, Large section of bedrock located between fault lines
- 9. Melted rock beneath earth’s surface
- 11. Melted rock above earth’s surface
- 13. Boundary, An area where two or more tectonic plates meet
- 16. Eruption, When a volcano releases molten lava, hot rock fragments, and gases onto the Earth's surface or into the atmosphere
- 18. Spreading, The process that forms new oceanic crust along divergent boundaries
- 19. Crust, The layer of crust or bedrock located under the earth’s seven continents
- 20. Zone, Convergent boundary where an oceanic plate slides under a continental plate
- 21. Rock behaving like warm clay due to extreme temperature and pressure
- 22. The amount stuff in a sample vs the volume of the sample (how tightly packed together the molecules in a sample are)
- 23. Zone, Convergent boundary where two continental plates are pushing against each other forcing the rock up
- 24. A supercontinent that existed a long time ago in which all current day continents were joined together
- 25. The outermost layers of earth made of solid rock - spans from what we can see on earth’s surface to a few miles below the surface
- 26. The strength of an earthquake
- 27. Loose earth materials, such as sand, soil, and rocks found at earth’s surface
Down
- 1. To break down
- 2. Boundary, Boundary where two plates move away from each other
- 3. Solid rock underneath loose soil and sediment in the earth’s crust
- 4. Crust, The type of bedrock or crust lying under the oceans of the world
- 5. Trench, A long narrow, deep area on the ocean floor formed at convergent boundaries
- 7. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground caused by the shifting of rock within the earth's crust or volcanic action
- 8. Boundary, Two plates sliding past each other
- 10. To build up
- 12. An opening in Earth's crust through which lava, ash, and gases erupt.
- 14. The layer of earth between the crust and the core made of thick gooey rock and magma - The creep zone is located here
- 15. Ridge, Underwater mountain range formed when magma fills the space along a divergent boundary
- 17. A crack or fracture in earth’s crust
- 21. Boundary, Boundary where two plates are pushing towards each other