Earth Systems Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 1. What's after the crust?
- 5. Sediment settles and is deposited in a new location.
- 7. What's the location on the surface directly above the focus.
- 8. Out of all the planets, which one is the largest in our solar system?
- 10. What type of soil forms where it is hot and wet?
- 11. What type of soil forms in humid areas with cool seasons?
- 13. Intense tropical low pressure area with sustained winds.
- 14. Small, solid pieces of material from rocks or organisms.
- 15. What is the solid outer portion of the earth called?
- 16. What's after the outer core?
- 21. Which layer in the thinnest layer?
- 22. What's the point within the earth where an earthquake starts.
- 23. All of the water on Earth
- 25. how many rocky inner planets are there?
- 26. What's hot liquified rock that breaks the earth’s surface.
- 27. Water, ice, wind moves pieces of rock and soil.
- 28. What type of soil forms on loosely arranged material?
Down
- 2. A narrow, funnel shaped column of spiral wind that extends downward.
- 3. Living portion of the earth.
- 4. The process of breaking down rock on Earth’s surface.
- 6. What theory explains how our solar system, including the planets, formed.
- 9. What is the layer of gases surrounding the earth?
- 10. Small area storms formed by the strong upward movement of warm moist air.
- 11. How many gassy outer planets are there?
- 12. What type of soil forms where it is dry?
- 17. The vibration of Earth produced by the rapid release of energy when a slip occurs at a fault.
- 18. What type of soil forms on bedrock?
- 19. What type of eruptions are driven by explosive gas and expel lava and tephra.
- 20. What's after the Mantle?
- 24. Vertical movement of the crust.