Unit 2 Extra Credit
Across
- 3. The innermost layer of earth made up of a super hot but solid inner core and super hot liquid outer core
- 5. The movement of weathered rock and material by wind, glaciers, and moving water; the wearing away of soil
- 6. Drift The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
- 7. Thick middle layer of the earths interior structure consisting of hot rock that is dense but flexable
- 9. Outer layer of the earth, hard rocky shell forming earths suface
- 11. Molten rock that is located below earths surface
- 13. Uppermost layer of the earth that includes the crust, continents, and ocean basins
- 14. The part of the earth where life exists.
- 15. Tectonic The trem scientists use to describe the activities of continental drift and magma flow which create many of earths physical features
Down
- 1. The watery areas of earth, including oceans, lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water
- 2. Shelf Part of a continent that extends out underneath the ocean
- 4. Chemical or physical processes that break down rocks into smaller pieces
- 8. A thin layer of gases that surrounds the earth.
- 10. A crack or break in earths crust.
- 12. A bend in layers of rock, sometimes, caused by plate movement