Earth's Constructive and Destructive Forces
Across
- 3. contains all of Earth's water
- 4. forces associated with plate movement
- 8. a glacier lake
- 10. Earth's living and nonliving organisms
- 12. a continuous, directed movement of water
- 14. rain, snow, sleet, and hail
- 16. to collect or "drop" rocks in a given area
- 17. birds fly in this layer of atmosphere
- 18. outermost layer of Earth's mantle
- 19. water as a gas
- 22. the antarctic type of glacier
- 24. snowmelt and precipitation both cause this
- 28. glaciers leave this bowl shape
- 29. "middle layer" of Earth's atmosphere
- 31. when precipitation soaks into soils
- 33. "build up"
- 34. oceanic crust is rock similar to _____
- 36. indirect method of studying earth
- 37. destroy or wear away
- 38. aka a peak
Down
- 1. "breaking down" rocks and minerals
- 2. "move away"
- 5. layer above mesosphere in Earth's geosphere
- 6. solid water becoming water vapor
- 7. outermost layer of Earths atmosphere
- 9. front edge of a glacier
- 11. a change in state from a liquid to a gas
- 13. scientist developed theory of plate tect.
- 15. solid ice becoming liquid water
- 19. the "between mountains type of glacier
- 20. a valley cut by a glacier
- 21. planes fly in this layer Earth's atmosphere
- 23. the process of moving rocks and minerals
- 25. H20 that is found below Earth's surface
- 26. an ecosystem that is flooded by water
- 27. "collide"
- 30. the fastest traveling of all seismic waves
- 32. any large mass of ice that moves over land
- 35. sediments, rock, soil, and debris deposited