GBorgia Crossword Puzzle

2. ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to the speed of light in a medium
4. Measures vibrations that travels through the interior of Earth or any other object; on Earth, these are generally caused by earthquakes.
8. A Van Allen radiation belt is a zone of energetic charged particles, most of which originate from the solar wind
10. Sedimentary or igneous rocks that are altered by pressure or density
11. Class of silicates (made of silicon and granite)
13. The zone within which the Earth’s magnetic field dominates over the interplanetary magnetic field that extends outward from the Sun
16. The sideways and downward motion of the edge of a plate pf earth’s crust into the mantle beneath another plate
17. plate tectonics spreading away from each other.
18. making up about 6 kilometers of the crust.

1. The motion of segments or plates of the outer layer of a planet over the underlying mantle.
3. Rocks made up of igneous rock or decomposed living organisms
5. clashing against each other.
6. a vibration that travels through the interior of Earth or any other object; on Earth, these are generally caused by earthquakes.
7. The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the upper atmosphere of the Sun, called the corona
9. sliding against each other.
12. Spots area far from the border of tectonic that are hot because of center of the earth
14. Largest part of solid Earth, from base of crust to a depth of 2900 kilometers
15. Any rock that has cooled from a molten state