Science thingy
Across
- 4. Any sudden shaking of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves through Earth's rocks.
- 8. The movement of continents resulting from the motion of tectonic plates.
- 10. Massive slab of solid rock made up of Earth's lithosphere
- 12. A mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth. It helps make life possible by providing us with air to breathe
- 13. When two plates come together, it is known as
Down
- 1. The action or process in plate tectonics of the edge of one crustal plate descending below the edge of another
- 2. Occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other.
- 3. A fluid layer about 1,400 miles thick, composed of mostly iron and nickel that lies above Earth's solid inner core
- 5. The mostly solid bulk of Earth's interior.
- 6. The solid, outer part of Earth,bounded by the atmosphere above and the asthenosphere
- 7. The innermost layer of the Earth and is located at the direct center of the Earth below the outer core.
- 9. A logarithmic scale used to rate the strength or total energy of earthquakes. The scale has no upper limit but usually ranges from 1 to 9.
- 11. The outermost shell of a terrestrial planet.