Earth Vocabulary List

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Across
  1. 2. - hot fluid or semi-fluid material below or within the Earth’s crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed by cooling
  2. 4. boundary - Boundaries between two plates that are colliding
  3. 7. - is when plate tectonics from one crustal plate is descending below the other plate
  4. 8. - a very hard, igneous rock
  5. 9. - The hydrosphere includes all the water on Earth. This includes all the water on the surface such as clouds and vapour
  6. 12. - was a supercontinent
  7. 13. - violent shaking of the ground which is caused by the movement of tectonic plates
  8. 17. - the structure and properties of Earths crust
  9. 19. - a massive slab of rock which is mostly composed of continentals and oceanic lithosphere
  10. 20. - an ancient supercontinent that existed from the Neoproterozoic and began to break up during the Jurassic period
  11. 21. - a high sea waves that are caused by an earthquake and other disturbance in the ocean
  12. 22. currents - is a current that is inside the fluid which results in convection
  13. 23. boundary - boundaries between two plates that are sliding past each other
Down
  1. 1. boundary - Boundaries between two plates that are moving apart or rifting
  2. 3. - all plants and animals that live on Earth
  3. 5. - a point on the surface of Earth that is vertically above the centre of the earthquake
  4. 6. - This part consists of the crust and upper mantle. It is the rigid outer part of the Earth
  5. 10. - Molten rock that has come out of the interior of a terrestrial planet or moon
  6. 11. - the study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth
  7. 14. - The envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet
  8. 15. - it is the upper layer of the Earth’s mantle but it is below the lithosphere
  9. 16. - is inside of the Earth’s crust where the earthquake originates
  10. 18. - is a fine-grained volcanic rock
  11. 24. - fractures of two block of rock