Earth Science

2. It is the rising of cold water from deeper layers to replace warmer surface water that has been moved away.
4. The basic building blocks of minerals that cannot be broken down.
5. The process by which plate tectonics produces new oceanic lithosphere at ocean ridges.
7. An atom with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons for a given element.
8. The process of plants absorbing water and releasing into the atmosphere.
11. A solid and rocky shell that extends to a depth of 2890 kilometers.
13. A massive igneous body intruded between preexisting strata.
15. The force per unit area acting on a solid.
16. The transfer of energy (heat) through space by electromagnetic waves.
18. A substance formed by the chemical combination of two or more elements.
19. The slope or steepness of a stream channel.

1. The opposite process of where water vapor changing to the liquid state.
3. A molecule of oxygen containing three oxygen atoms.
6. This is the theory that proposes that the earth's outer shell consists of individual plates interacting in various ways and tghereby producing earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains, and the crust itself.
9. The concept that earth's crust is floating in gravitational balance upon the material of the mantle.
10. A line connecting points of equal temperature.
12. A tabular igneous body formed when magma is injected along sedimentary.
14. A measure of a fluid's resistance to flow.
17. A molten material that forms deep beneath earth's surface.
20. Any solid mass material or mineral-like matter that occurs naturally as part of our planet.