vocabulary words
Across
- 3. any movement of matter that results from differents in destiny
- 6. a location within earth along fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs
- 9. outer most part of the crust
- 12. the point on earths surface directly above an earthquake starting point or focus
- 13. the soft layer of the mantle which the tectonic plates move
- 15. rebound the sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape
- 17. the boundary between tectonic plats that are colliding
- 18. the thin and solid layer of earth above the mantle
- 19. the process by which one lithosphere plate moves beneath another plate as the result of tectonic force
- 20. forms when magma rises to earthsserface at mid ocean
- 21. an observation
- 22. the bending, tilting, and breaking of earths crust
- 23. tectonics earths outer layer
Down
- 1. the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other
- 2. the strong, lower part of the mantle between the asthenospherere and the outer core
- 4. the ridged upper part of the mantle
- 5. the layer of rock of rock between earths crust and core
- 6. a break in a body
- 7. the central part of earth below the mantle
- 8. the boundary between two tectonic plates moving away from each other
- 10. a moving or trembling on the ground
- 11. plate boundary the movement taking place between the plates
- 14. the process by which earths magnetic north pole and magnetic south pole switch
- 16. drift the hypothesis that a single large landmass broke up into into smaller landmass