NV: Earth & Space Science Unit 3 Vocabulary Check-In

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Across
  1. 5. Term referring to the rigid, rocky outer layer of a planet. On Earth, it comprises the entire crust and the brittle, uppermost portion of the upper mantle.
  2. 9. The part of the mantle that mantle plume travelled through is nicknamed the _______ mantle.
  3. 10. The scientific name for the plastic mantle.
  4. 11. The plate boundary classification found to occur between the Philippine Plate and the Pacific Plate.
Down
  1. 1. The Pacific Plate is being __________ under the North American plate at the Aleutian Trench.
  2. 2. By analyzing the speed and ability of a _______ wave to travel through Earth's interior layer, scientists can map it out without having ever gone there.
  3. 3. Plate boundary type where Earth's plates are moving away from each other.
  4. 4. Plate _________ determines which plate is subducted and which plate is overridden at a plate boundary.
  5. 5. S-Waves cannot penetrate/travel through the Earth's outer core because it is made of __________.
  6. 6. __________ is the position on Earth's surface directly above where an earthquake originated from.
  7. 7. ______ is the exact point beneath the Earth's surface where an earthquake begins and rock fractures
  8. 8. ___________ describes the type of heat transfer that occurs within a mantle plume and drives plate tectonics and seafloor spreading.