SES2 Earth Systems Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 7. the transmission of heat or electricity or sound
  2. 8. the central part of the earth
  3. 9. a gradual sinking to a lower level
  4. 10. lift up from the earth, as by geologic forces
  5. 12. the outer layer of the earth
  6. 13. (plate tectonics) a hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the trassic period when it split into laurasia and gondwanaland
  7. 16. the branch of geology that studies rocks and land forms
  8. 19. an instrument for measuring movements of the ground
  9. 20. a stress that produces an elongation of a physical body
  10. 21. relating to or associated with heat
  11. 23. (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body
  12. 24. a geological process that causes a bend in a stratum of rock
  13. 25. alter the shape of (something) by stress
  14. 27. the layer of the earth between the crust and the core
  15. 28. transfer of heat caused by molecular motion in liquid or gas
  16. 29. Drift the gradual movement of very large land masses
  17. 31. the formation of crystals
  18. 32. the atmospheric layer between the stratosphere and the thermosphere
  19. 34. a long steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
  20. 35. a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tetonic theory) broke up later into india and austrailia and africa and south america and antartica
  21. 36. Scale a logarithmic scale of 1 to 10 formerly used to express the magnitude of an earthquake or the basis of the size of seismograph oscillations
  22. 39. a crack in the earth's crust
Down
  1. 1. floor the bottom of a sea or ocean
  2. 2. a hypothetical continent that (according to plate tectonic theory) broke up later into north america and europe and asia
  3. 3. movement of the edge of one tectonic plate under another
  4. 4. Fault a geological fault in which one of the adjacent surfaces appears to have moved horizontally
  5. 5. the exertion of force to a surface
  6. 6. one of the large landmasses of the earth
  7. 11. Fault a geological fault in which the upper side appears to have been pushed upward by compression
  8. 12. an increase in the density of something
  9. 14. the accumulation of matter deposited by some natural process
  10. 15. a rigid layer of the earth's crust
  11. 17. Tectonics the movement or study of the movement of the earth's crust
  12. 18. Fault an inclined fault in which the hanging wall appears to have slipped downward relative to the footwall
  13. 22. molten rock in the earth's crust
  14. 24. a crack in the earth's crust resulting from displacement
  15. 25. the amount per unit size
  16. 26. the lower layer of the crust
  17. 30. the part of the earth consisting of the crust and mantle
  18. 31. Shelf the relatively shallow seabed surrounding a continent
  19. 33. vibration from underground movement along a fault plane
  20. 37. Valley a valley with steep sides
  21. 38. Movement movement resulting from or causing deformation of the earth's crust