Restless Earth Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 5. The semi-fluid layer of the mantle where convection currents happen.
  2. 7. Sudden events that led to a mass a mass extinction.
  3. 9. Hot material rises, cooler materials sink. It drives plate tectonics.
  4. 10. Includes the crust and upper part of the mantle, and is divided into tectonic plates.
  5. 11. Formed as a result of high temperature and pressure deep within Earth changing a rock that already existed.
  6. 12. Extinction Events: Extinction events that occur over a longer time period.
Down
  1. 1. A group of the same species living in the same area.
  2. 2. plates: Large, rigid pieces of the Earth's lithosphere that move and interact with each other along plate boundaries.
  3. 3. Rock formed when lava or magma cools and hardens.
  4. 4. Instruments used to measure and record seismic waves.
  5. 6. Located between the mantle and the outer core.
  6. 8. Forms after weathering and erosion when sediments compact and cement.