Earth Science Crossword
Across
- 2. Heat is transformed In waves through the air, such as heat coming from a campfire
- 3. Cycle Series of processes on the surface and inside Earth that slowly changes rocks from one kind to another
- 5. Type of rock that forms from sediments
- 6. Property of minerals that may be used to help in identification, but not as reliable as its streak
- 9. of Fire Area of volcanic and seismic activity that surrounds the Pacific Plate
- 12. A measure of the average energy of motion of the particles of a substance, which increases inside Earth as the depth increases
- 13. Force that pushes on the ends of the rock causing it to get thicker in the middle
- 15. Instrument used to record seismic waves
Down
- 1. Neck Forms as magma hardens inside a pipe
- 4. Force that pulls on the ends of rock causing it to get thinner in the middle
- 7. Hanging wall moves up the dip of the fault
- 8. the study of weather
- 10. Tides occur when the sun and moon are at right angles to each other (produces smaller high and low tides)
- 11. state of the atmosphere
- 14. the act of decreasing or reducing something