Unit 2: Plates & Rocks Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. The point at earth’s surfaces
  2. 5. The size of something (like an earthquake)
  3. 7. Loose earth materials, such as sand, soil, and rocks found on the surface of Earth
  4. 8. Plate materials containing denser basalt rock that is usually found under the ocean
  5. 10. The part of Earth under the crust where rock gets hot enough to melt
  6. 12. Plate material containing less dense granite rock that is usually found on our continental land
  7. 13. A type of rock formed when layers of sediment are compressed by heavy layers of sediment over time
Down
  1. 1. A connection between two or more things
  2. 2. The act of causing something
  3. 4. A system boundary between fault lines (mostly unbroken bedrock in between the broken edges of the bedrock at the fault lines
  4. 6. A fracture of crack in the bedrock
  5. 9. The part of Earth with the plates
  6. 11. Solid rock found everywhere on Earth, often under sediments