Earth's Systems
Across
- 2. something melted due to extreme heat
- 5. place where magma rises from deep inside Earth
- 7. what is the rigid outer layer of the earth?
- 8. the crust under the ocean, thin but heavier
- 10. edges where tectonic plates meet
- 12. a tectonic plate under the ocean
- 15. the part of the Earths crust that forms land
- 16. place where two plates push together
- 17. a huge piece of the lithosphere that moves on the astheosphere
- 18. place where two plates slide past each other causing earthquakes
Down
- 1. the super hot solid center of the Earth
- 2. the invisible force around Earth that protects from suns radiation
- 3. the thickest layer of Earth Between the crust and core
- 4. This is the soft flowing layer of the mantle below the lithosphere
- 6. where two tectonic plates moves apart
- 9. the liquid layer around the inner core, made from iron and nickel
- 11. a large piece of Earth crust that carries continents.
- 13. The thin outer most layer of the Earth
- 14. trench a deep valley in the ocean floor