Earth Systems
Across
- 4. release of water vapor by plants through their leaves
- 8. water returning from the atmosphere (snow, rain, hail, sleet)
- 11. Effect a process by which gasses in the atmosphere trap the Sun’s heat
- 12. is the hard rock on and just below Earth’s surface
- 14. the layers of gases that envelop a planet
- 15. Protects Earth from the Sun’s radiation
- 16. made of all the rock at and below the Earth’s surface
- 17. A supercontinent
Down
- 1. The part of Earth in which living things interact with nonliving things.
- 2. Two plates meet, they slip and grind alongside each other. Causes Earthquakes
- 3. magma surges upward to the surface and pushes plates apart
- 5. drive a system to an extreme
- 6. one of the rigid layers of the lithosphere
- 7. enhances stability of a system
- 9. water going from gas to liquid state
- 10. when 2 plates collide
- 13. water going from liquid to gas form