Earth and space basics
Across
- 3. The regular rise and fall of the ocean's surface influenced by the moon's gravity pulling on earth
- 7. a force that exists between any two objects that have mass and that pulls the objects together
- 8. layer protects Earth from ultraviolet rays
- 11. A resource that can be replaced within a reasonable amount of time
- 12. innermost layer of the earth
- 14. largest and second outermost layer of the earth
- 15. a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
- 18. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
- 19. A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions.
- 20. A tropical storm that has winds of about 119 kilometers per hour or higher.
Down
- 1. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
- 2. A large cloud of dust and gas in space. (Some are regions where new stars are beginning to form.)
- 4. layer of water that makes up ¾ Earth's surface
- 5. gaseous region that surrounds the earth
- 6. The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure
- 9. A resource that once used, cannot be replaced in a reasonable amount of time
- 10. the outermost shell of a terrestrial planet
- 13. second innermost layer of the earth
- 16. an imaginary line through the center of a body about which the body rotates.
- 17. A measure of how hot or cold something is.