Earth Crossword

2. The Mohorovicic Discontinuity
4. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
8. the action of rotating around an axis or center.
10. velocity the minimum speed an object needs to be traveling to completely escape Earth's gravitational pull and move into space
11. the denser crustal layer of Earth that makes up portions of tectonic plates in deep oceans
13. move or cause to move into a sloping position.
14. metal

1. the angular distance of a place north or south of the earth's equator, or of a celestial object north or south of the celestial equator, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.
3. the curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
4. the angular distance of a place east or west of the meridian at Greenwich, England, or west of the standard meridian of a celestial object, usually expressed in degrees and minutes.
5. an imaginary line that circles the Earth halfway between the North and South Poles.
6. a weak, ductile layer of Earth's mantle that lies below the lithosphere
7. the slow change in the direction of Earth's rotational axis
9. the thickest layer of the planet
12. the outermost layer of the Earth made of rock