Lithosphere Vocab

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Across
  1. 5. -a fertile soil containing humus
  2. 6. -an ocean wave is an example
  3. 8. -large natural elevation of rock or stone
  4. 13. -the upper layer of the earths mantle but below lithosphere
  5. 14. -the state of being stretched tight
  6. 16. -the outer layer of the earth
  7. 17. -a resource that is used to make bricks
  8. 18. -are a type of elastic wave and are one of the two main types of elastic body waves
  9. 19. -is an area on Earth where two or more lithospheric plates collide
  10. 22. -low area of land between hills or mountains
  11. 23. -was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras
  12. 26. -are places where plates slide sideways past each other
  13. 29. -an elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake
  14. 30. -inside core
  15. 31. -a planar fracture
  16. 32. -outside core
  17. 33. -break off or cause to break off
Down
  1. 1. -the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
  2. 2. -the ground shaking a lot
  3. 3. -ring or volcanoes
  4. 4. -fastest seismic wave
  5. 5. -the rigid and outer part of the earth
  6. 7. -the drift of continents from each other
  7. 9. -a narrow slit in the ground, sometimes underwater
  8. 10. - two tectonic plates move away from each other
  9. 11. -sits below the crust but above the core in the earth
  10. 12. -the forming of new oceanic crust
  11. 15. -a current in a fluid that results from convection
  12. 20. -large dangerous wave
  13. 21. -the action of compressing or being compressed
  14. 24. -the organic component of soil
  15. 25. -a mountain with lava and fire
  16. 27. -a type of dirt used for gardening
  17. 28. -the plates that when overlapped cause earthquakes