vocabulary

2. the superhighway in the sky that moves water everywhere over the Earth.
7. water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
9. the movement of water into the ground from the surface.
10. a location where two tectonic plates are moving toward each other, often causing one plate to slide below the other
13. thin shell on the outside of Earth
15. the solid, outer part of the Earth
16. linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other

1. a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have erupted from the earth's crust.
3. where the cold oceanic lithosphere sinks back into the mantle and is recycled
4. a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
5. the upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere, in which there is relatively low resistance to plastic flow and convection is thought to occur.
6. the process of water vapor turning back into liquid water
8. an area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet such as the outflow of a reservoir, mouth of a bay, or any point along a stream channel.
11. the generally accepted scientific theory that considers the Earth's lithosphere
12. occurs when tectonic plates meet at a convergent boundary both bearing continental lithosphere
14. the mostly-solid bulk of Earth's interior