Science Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. A rock formation growing from the floor of a cave
  2. 4. A rock formation growing from the roof of a cave
  3. 6. The second layer of the Earth's crust
  4. 9. Rocks changed by heat and pressure
  5. 12. The movement of weathered rock
  6. 14. The weathering of rock by wind, water, ice, or heat
  7. 15. A combination of liquid rock material and dissolved gases
  8. 16. The area where one plate a convergent boundary sinks into the mantle
  9. 17. Two plates push together
  10. 18. Fractures or breaks in the Earth's crust
  11. 19. The rocky top layer of the mantle where earthquakes occur and where mountains and volcanos are formed
  12. 21. A mountain made from magma that has emerged from inside the Earth
  13. 22. The thin solid outermost layer of the Earth
  14. 23. The creation of mountains when tectonic plate tectonics collide
  15. 24. Landforms created by the material deposited by rivers
  16. 27. Super continent
  17. 29. The folding and fault lines created by the compression or stretching of rocks
  18. 30. Currents form deep in the Earth's interior and bring heated material upwards while pulling cooler material down towards the interior of the Earth
  19. 32. a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance.
  20. 34. The wholes in top of the volcano
  21. 35. The physical process of turning liquid into a solid
  22. 36. Crust found beneath oceans
  23. 37. Rocks formed from magma beneath the Earth's surface
Down
  1. 1. The wind erosion created by poor farming practices in the Midwest in the 1920's
  2. 2. Magma on the surface of the Earth
  3. 3. Divergent Boundaries on the ocean floor that fill with magma which cools into new oceanic crust
  4. 5. Two plate move apart from each other
  5. 7. The layer of the mantle where the Eartth's plate float
  6. 8. Weathering caused by chemical reactions that cause chemical changes in the minearals that make up rocks
  7. 10. The process of minerals suspended in fluid being deposited in layers as a solid
  8. 11. Two plates slide apart
  9. 13. Weathering caused by living organisms
  10. 20. Breaking down rocks into smaller peices
  11. 25. The depositing of eroded soil
  12. 26. Rocks forms from deposited and compressed sediments
  13. 28. An opening in the Earth's surface through which magma erupts
  14. 31. Processes that contribute to the formation or reshaping of landforms
  15. 33. When water carries eroded material