Earth and Space Vocabularies
Across
- 1. The rigid, outermost rocky shell of our planet.
- 6. The relatively thin part of the earth's crust which underlies the ocean basins.
- 8. An object that's reduced to liquid form by heating.
- 9. The splitting apart of a single tectonic plate into two or more tectonic plates.
- 11. A supercontinent that incorporated almost all the landmasses on Earth.
- 14. Massive slab of solid rock made up of Earth's lithosphere
- 15. A current in a fluid that results from convection.
- 16. Relating to an earth vibration caused by something else.
- 18. The force exerted on a surface by the air above it as gravity pulls it to Earth.
- 20. A measure of mass per unit of volume.
Down
- 2. The degree of hotness or coldness of the atmosphere on some chosen scale.
- 3. The part that is responsible for generating the planet's magnetic field.
- 4. A natural substance composed of solid crystals of different minerals that have been fused together into a solid lump.
- 5. The mostly-solid bulk of Earth's interior.
- 7. The relatively thick part of the earth's crust that forms the large landmasses.
- 10. The hot solid material with high pressure found in the centre.
- 12. The mechanically weak region of the upper mantle of Earth.
- 13. The region of the earth's atmosphere above the stratosphere and below the thermosphere, between about 30 and 50 miles (50 and 80 km) in altitude.
- 17. The boundary between the crust and the mantle in the earth.
- 19. The outermost layer.