Layers Of The Earth Crossword: Hard By Kimara McCree
Across
- 4. The solid, outer part of Earth.
- 8. The mostly-solid bulk of Earth's interior.
- 10. The fluid layer mostly composed of liquid iron and nickel.
- 11. The deepest part of the mantle is the ___ where temperatures and pressures get so high that the rock becomes more rigid and doesn't flow as easily.
- 12. The rocks of the lithosphere are not vicious but considered _____.
- 14. Earth's frozen regions including ice
- 17. The crust makes up only 1% of the volume of ____
- 18. The person who discovered the earth had layers
- 19. It is thicker, less dense, and mostly made up of rock granite.
- 20. Earth's living things
Down
- 1. It is thinner, denser, and mostly made up of the rock basalt.
- 2. The ___ layer of the Earth is the core.
- 3. Earth's air surrounding our planet
- 5. The innermost geologic layer of planet Earth.
- 6. Earth's water
- 7. The lithosphere includes the ___ upper portion of the mantle and the crust.
- 9. The outermost shell of a terrestrial planet.
- 13. The denser, weaker layer beneath the lithospheric mantle.
- 15. The uppermost region of Earth's atmosphere as it gradually fades into the vacuum of space.
- 16. Spins as the planet rotates and creates Earth's magnetic field.