Landforms-Study Guide
Across
- 2. Cooling magma becomes a rock
- 3. What is the scientific theory that Earth's crust is divided up into plates?
- 5. Caused by a vent in the earth's surface from which molten rock and gasses erupt
- 8. Layers of sediment that become bonded together forming a rock
- 10. Where the eroded object ends up
- 12. Plates slide past each other
- 15. The thinnest layer of the Earth that's made of rocky material
- 18. Who proposed the idea that continents sat on large plates and was once Pangea?
- 19. A layer of the Earth made out of melted iron and nickel
- 20. Plates push together
- 21. The process of a weathered object moving from one place to another
- 22. A combination in which one substance dissolves in another
- 23. Plates move apart
Down
- 1. What is the constant moving of the plates that float on top of the mantle called?
- 4. What provides information about life and conditions in the past?
- 6. Heat and pressure transforms one type of rock into another
- 7. Weathering caused by chemical reactions
- 9. What occurs when two plates push against each other and become locked?
- 11. Weathering caused by physical forces
- 13. A combination of two or more substances that do not lose their identifying characteristics when combined
- 14. A layer made of iron and nickel that could be solid because of the intense pressure
- 16. What is the movement of the earth's plates called?
- 17. The thickest layer of the Earth with lots of magma