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