Unit 2 Earth Science Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. a break in Earth's crust
- 4. an area under the crust, where magma is hotter than surrounding magma
- 6. an opening or vent where lava erupts on Earth's surface
- 8. border between two plates
- 10. a gooey, melted rock and is the upper layer of the earths mantle
- 11. heat transfer through the movement of either liquid or gas.
- 15. solid topmost layer of Earth
- 16. solid outermost layer of Earth
- 18. innermost layer of Earth
- 19. a sudden and violent shake of the ground
Down
- 1. plates move away from each other
- 2. a crack that lava comes out
- 3. when two plates squeeze together
- 5. plates move toward each other
- 7. a plate going beneath another plate
- 9. event of plate movement
- 12. liquid rock made out of iron and nickel
- 13. uppermost part of the mantle
- 14. a very deep and narrow hole in the ground
- 17. plates slide sideways past each other