Earth Vocab

2. Includes the crust and upper part of the mantle and is divided into plate tectonics
3. An opening in the Earth's crust through which motlen rock is pushed out and creates new rock
4. instruments used to measure and record seismic wave
6. Name of ancient supercontinent when it was all on land mass
9. tectonic plates move toward each other, usually forms mountains and volcanoes
12. formed at plate boundaries usually when plates collide
14. extinction events that occur over a longer period
19. Forms after weathering and erosion when sediments compactsConvectionnt
20. Large, Rigid pieces of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other along plate boundaries
21. Deep, elongated dreppions in the ocean, often associated with subduction zones

1. where tectonic plates SLIDE past each other. cause earthquakes
5. new oceanic crust is formed as tectonic plates pull apart and magma rises
7. sudden events that led to a mass extinction
8. tectonic plates move away from each other, usually forms new crust and rift valleys
10. Located between the mantle and the outer core
11. Cycles Hot material rises, cooler materials sink. It drives plate tectonics
13. Fractures of zones of weakness in the Earth's crust
15. Rock formed when lava or magma cools and hardens
16. A group of the same species living in the same area
17. Formed as a result of high temperature and pressure deep within the Earth
18. The semi-fluid layer of the mantle where convection currents happen