Earth's Systems and Materials Review
Across
- 6. The movement of Earth’s plates that shapes Earth’s surface.
- 7. Supercontinent that once included all the continents joined together.
- 8. When oceanic and continental plates collide, this landform can form.
- 10. Solid metal layer at Earth’s center.
- 11. Solid outer layer of the Earth where we live.
- 12. Type of boundary where two plates push together.
- 13. Earth’s outermost mechanical layer made of solid plates.
- 16. Scientist who discovered seafloor spreading
- 19. The soft, hot layer beneath the lithosphere where rock flows slowly.
Down
- 1. Rising and sinking of hot and cool rock in the mantle that moves the plates.
- 2. The force field around Earth caused by movement in the core, part of what causes auroras.
- 3. Waves that move side-to-side, up and down, shear rocks, and can only travel through solids.
- 4. The liquid metal layer surrounding the inner core.
- 5. The middle compositional layer made of hot rock.
- 6. Waves that move by pushing and squeezing; they can travel through solids and liquids.
- 9. The scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift.
- 14. Evidence of the same _____ found on different continents supported continental drift.
- 15. Plates slide past each other at this type of boundary.
- 17. Chain of islands formed as a tectonic plate moves over a stationary hot spot.
- 18. Type of boundary where plates move apart and new crust forms.