Science crossword
Across
- 6. a sudden shaking of earth's crust
- 8. the middle layer of earth
- 9. a hole in the earth where melted rocks flow out and cools to form a mountain
- 11. rocks formed from layers of sediment that get buried, pressed, and cemented together over a long period of time
- 14. melted rock that flows out to the earth's surface
- 15. traces or remains of living things that died a long time ago
- 17. rocks that have cooled and formed from melted rock
- 18. the moving of broken rock when weathering occurs
- 19. a solid object that forms crystals
Down
- 1. rocks formed when heat and pressure change existing stones into different rocks
- 2. narrow valleys with steep sides
- 3. melted rock inside the earth
- 4. cracks in earth's crust
- 5. huge pieces of earth's crust and mantle that move
- 7. boundaries the places where two plates meet
- 10. the top layer of earth
- 12. the breaking down of rocks into smaller pieces
- 13. tectonics the theory that explains the motion of the plates
- 16. the bottom layer of earth