Science Terms Crossword

2. Rising mantle material at mid-ocean ridges creates the potential for plates to move away from the ridge with this force.(two words)
6. The theory that earth's surface is made of rigid slabs of rock that move.(two words)
7. A theory that suggested that continents are in constant motion.(two words)
8. This refers to grain size and how the grains are arranged.
12. The results when uneven pressures cause flat minerals to line up.
13. Rock and mineral fragments that are loose or suspended in water.
15. This pulls on the rest of the plate with this force.(two words)
18. Molten rock that erupts onto earth's surface.
20. A state in which magnetized objects will orient themselves to point to the north.(two words)

1. The process of laying down sediment in a new location.
3. The process through which sediment turns into rock.
4. The process by which new oceanic crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge.(two words)
5. a state in which magnetized objects would reverse direction and orients to point to the south.(two words)
9. The process that loves large amounts of rock up to earths surface.
10. The individual parts in a rock.
11. The cold and rigid outermost rock layers.
14. Molten rock when it is inside earth.
16. The denser plate sinks below the more buoyant plate in this process.
17. The theory that all continents were once a supercontinent.
19. This is a naturally occuring solid mixture composed of minerals and other things.