Earth System's vocab

2. Sudden events that led to a mass extinction
6. Includes the crust and upper part of the mantle and is divided into tectonic plates
9. Formed as a result of high temperature and pressure deep within earth changing a rock that already existed
10. Forms after weathering and erosion when sediments compact and cement
12. Rock formed when lava or magma cools and hardens
13. Fractures or zones of weakness in the Earth's crust
15. Hot material rises, cooler materials sink. It drives plate tectonics
17. Deep, elongated depressions in the ocean, often associated with subduction zones.
18. located between the mantle and the outer core
20. where tectonic plates slide past each other. Causes earthquakes.
21. formed at plate boundaries platesly when plate collide.

1. The semi-fluid layer of the mantle where convection currents happen.
3. Name of the acient supercontinent when it was all one landmass.
4. tectonic plates move away from each other usually forms new crust and rift valleys.
5. Extinction events that occur over a longer time period
7. new oceanic crust is formed as tectonic plates pull apart and magma rises.
8. A group of the same species living in the same area
11. Instruments used to measure and record seismic waves
14. tectonic plates move toward each other usually forms mountains and volcanoes
16. Large rigid pieces of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other along plate boundaries
19. an opening in the Ethrough crust though which molten rock is pushed out and created new rock