Natural Processes

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Across
  1. 6. Type of glacier found in Greenland
  2. 9. An opening in the crust where lava reaches the surface
  3. 13. The weather in some location averaged over a long period of time
  4. 17. Mixture of water droplets, ice crystals
  5. 19. Large, isolated boulders left behind by a glacier
  6. 24. A topographic barrier that could cause rain if moist air is lifted over it
  7. 25. The major difference between fog and a cloud
  8. 26. Prefix for Low Clouds
  9. 27. Hills deposited when glaciers retreat
  10. 28. "Nuclear reactor" type of heating occurs in this layer of the Earth
  11. 30. Outermost layer of Earth made of gasses
  12. 32. Rocks formed from layers of sediment and organic matter
  13. 33. Plate boundary most associated with earthquakes
  14. 34. Prefix for High Clouds
  15. 35. __________ Rebound - When crust and ocean rise after glaciers melt
  16. 37. Earth's rocky, outer surface
  17. 39. Type of snow between Snowflakes and Glacial Ice in the Glacial process
  18. 40. Flow from a drainage basin that appears in surface streams
  19. 41. Type of glacier found on a mountain
  20. 42. When water particles fall from the atmosphere and reach the ground
  21. 46. The point on the Earth's surface that is directly above the centre of the earthquake
  22. 47. Thickest layer of Earth. Made up of magma
  23. 49. Ocean _________- affects air masses that pass over it
Down
  1. 1. A scale that scientists use to determine earthquake strength
  2. 2. A weakness in the Earth's crust where Earthquakes tend to happen
  3. 3. A place in the middle of a tectonic plate where magma rises through the crust
  4. 4. A region encircling the Pacific Ocean noted for volcanic activity
  5. 5. A large volcano composed of several layers of cinder and hardened lava
  6. 7. Type of currents in the Earth's mantle that move tectonic plates
  7. 8. One of the layers of Earth containing all water
  8. 10. A device that measures and detects seismic waves
  9. 11. Plate boundary associated with the creation of mountains
  10. 12. When water goes from liquid to gas
  11. 14. Water falling from the sky
  12. 15. Rocks formed from cooling magma or lava
  13. 16. Rocks formed from existing rocks, transformed by heat and pressure
  14. 18. The state of the atmosphere at any particular place or time
  15. 20. Prefix for Middle Clouds
  16. 21. Super-continent that contained all the Earth's land masses
  17. 22. Plate boundary where places move away from one another
  18. 23. When an ocean plate goes underneath a continental plate
  19. 29. Wet stuff in the oceans
  20. 31. Amount of water vapour in the air
  21. 36. Material directly deposited by the ice of a glacier
  22. 37. When water vapour changes state to (most commonly,) a liquid
  23. 38. The most common type of volcano, made of volcanic cinder
  24. 43. Massive wave that occurs when an Earthquake happens underwater
  25. 44. Theory of the creation of the known universe
  26. 45. Measure of heat used for describing the weather
  27. 48. Leading edge of a moving air mass in cyclonic precipitation