Layers of the Earth
Across
- 3. The state of matter in the inner-core
- 4. Due to the moving liquid inner-core, the Earth has this type of field around it
- 5. The outer-most shell of the Earth, includes the crust and part of the upper mantle
- 8. The transfer of heat through solids
- 10. The deepest distance (in miles) that humans have ever dug
- 13. The state of matter in the outer-core
- 14. Hottest and most central layer of the Earth
- 15. The transfer of heat through a fluid
- 17. The process by which large landmasses move
- 19. The top-most layer of the Earth
- 20. The organisms responsible for introducing oxygen to our atmosphere
Down
- 1. The movement of land and continual change within the Earth is why we say it is __ active
- 2. Upper-layer of the mantle, interacts with the lithosphere
- 6. The transfer of heat through light
- 7. The largest layer of the Earth whose activity drives movement and creation of land
- 9. The gas in our atmosphere that was first produced by cyanobacteria
- 10. Where parts of the crust are recycled back into the mantle
- 11. A rupture in the crust of the Earth that allows lava to escape from below
- 12. The most prevalent gas in the atmosphere
- 16. Layer of liquid iron and nickel, surrounding the inner-most layer
- 18. Convection leads to loops or ______ of heated material