Convection & Mantle Crossword
Across
- 3. Hot and dense ball of iron in the center of the earth
- 8. a force that pulls an abject toward the center of the earth
- 11. when heat is transferred by movement from a heated liquid
- 12. differences in height from place to place
- 14. a region around a magnetic material or a moving electric charge
- 17. movement of the mantle as it transfers heat from the core to the lithosphere
- 19. the area above the earth's atmosphere
- 20. The thin part of the earth's crust which contains oceans basins
Down
- 1. mass of a unit volume of a material substance
- 2. the sources of energy that come from within the earth
- 4. changes in an atom once it is unstable and starts to lose its particles
- 5. mostly a solid layer of the earth's interior
- 6. the brittle upper portion of the mantle and crust
- 7. the thinnest layer of the earth
- 9. thick part of the earth's crust
- 10. the area surrounding the earth with its magnetic field
- 13. the rigid outer part of the earth, including the crust and upper mantle
- 15. the upper layer of the earth's mantle
- 16. hot and dense center of the earth
- 18. liquid layer between the inner core and the mantle