Processes that shape the Earth
Across
- 5. a hole in Earth's surface that develops when the ground collapses into space beneath it
- 8. a mountain on the ocean floor made from volcanic activity
- 9. special buoys in the ocean to detect the rise and fall of water waves
- 12. to move into its space and push it out of position
- 13. a word people often use to refer to the slow process of erosion
- 14. molten material from Earth's mantle below Earth's surface
- 15. molten material from Earth's mantle after it has reached Earth's surface
Down
- 1. allows geologists to measure the amount of sulfur dioxide in gas plumes released from a volcano
- 2. movement of sediment from one location to another
- 3. a wave or series of waves caused by displaced water
- 4. a man made structure that can absorb some of the force of tsunami waves
- 6. in geology, a plume of magma that causes eruptions through Earth's crust without plates interacting
- 7. the process of breaking rock into smaller pieces
- 8. a procedure of study used to examine and measure features of an area of land
- 10. small pieces of rock or other hard material that has broken down over time
- 11. an opening in Earth's crust through which lava erupts onto the surface