Dimitri Matheson
Across
- 7. any rock that has cooled from a molten state
- 9. cooled volcanic rock made of silicon, oxygen, iron, aluminum, magnesium
- 11. rock produced from chemical/physical alterations – temperature and pressure
- 12. boundary where two plates move apart
- 13. boundary where two plates push together
- 16. to bend; waves do this when passing through the interior
- 17. charged particles flowing from the sun’s surface
- 18. the sorting of a planet’s layers by density; densest first
Down
- 1. rock made of cemented fragments of other rocks or shells
- 2. vibrations that are sent through the interior of earth
- 3. 1,000 meters
- 4. the dense metallic center of earth
- 5. the outermost layer of the earth; layer we live on
- 6. the idea that convection in the mantle moves the plates
- 8. area where a plate sinks under another
- 10. hot flows up, cold sinks down; process in mantle
- 14. boundary where two plates slide past each other
- 15. largest layer of the earth; putty-like