Formations of Hawai'i Vocab Crossword
Across
- 2. Lava that erupts on land. It is flows fast, cools fast, and is "chunky
- 7. The theory that Earth's crust is made up of several large plates that all move and shift about with each other.
- 10. The natural act of soil and rock being removed from one location and being deposited somewhere else.
- 11. Coral reef that grows directly from shore, like a belt around the island.
- 12. An intensely hot area of the mantle.
Down
- 1. Coral reef that is separated from an eroding island by a lagoon.
- 3. Watermelon-shaped lava that erupts and cools rapidly underwater.
- 4. The cycling of magma in the mantle due to intense heat from the Inner Core.
- 5. The layer of earth that lies between the core and crust. Convection currents occur in this layer
- 6. The innermost layer of earth. It is intensely hot and made out of nickel and iron.
- 8. The outermost layer of the earth. It is divided up into several plates of oceanic and continental crust.
- 9. The tectonic plate that the Hawaiian Islands rest on.
- 13. Lava that erupts on land. It flows and cools slowly in smooth "ropes."