Evan's Dynamic Earth Vocab Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of the earth
  2. 5. A chain of volcanoes formed above a subducting oceanic plate
  3. 7. Place where earths plates move apart.
  4. 8. Movements driven by heat from the core and mantle that carry hot solid rock
  5. 10. Dark fine-grained rock
  6. 11. A black metallic iron ore most magnetic mineral on earth
  7. 12. The rock that forms earths outer layer the least dense and thick layer.
  8. 13. Layers of the earth based on their mechanical properties
  9. 14. A molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle
  10. 18. Hypothesis that all the continents had once been fused together and they had drifted apart over time.
  11. 19. The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath earths surface
  12. 20. A layer of the earth that's mechanical and strong in the lower mantle, located above the core and below the asthenosphere
  13. 21. The solid yet bendable layer
  14. 23. An undersea valley that represents one of the deepest parts of the ocean
  15. 25. The earth's crust and uppermost mantle
Down
  1. 1. Long zipper like chains of undersea mountains
  2. 2. A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of the Earth
  3. 4. Makes up most of the continental crust, formed below earths surface
  4. 6. A layer of the earth made of hot rock that is below the crust
  5. 9. Forms the continents and contains many types of rocks
  6. 15. Scientist who hand-drew and mapped the ocean floor.
  7. 16. Place where earths plates come together or converge
  8. 17. A substance usually metal or rock that has been turned into liquid by extreme heat
  9. 22. Pangaea was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras,
  10. 24. A physical field generated by magnets or electric currents