Earth Science Vocabulary

123456789101112131415
Across
  1. 2. Very small pieces of rocks.
  2. 5. A shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall.
  3. 7. The natural land shape or feature.
  4. 9. The process of rock being broken apart.
  5. 10. The boundary between two tectonic plates moving away from each other.
  6. 13. The point on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
  7. 14. The dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water.
  8. 15. The thick layer of Earth beneath the crust.
Down
  1. 1. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are colliding with each other.
  2. 3. The process of moving weathered rock from one place to another.
  3. 4. The layer of Earth extending from earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle.
  4. 6. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally.
  5. 8. The strength of an earthquake.
  6. 11. A break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side.
  7. 12. The thin outer layer of the Earth.