Will Huang's Dynamic Earth Vocabulary
Across
- 3. This theory is supported by fossil distributions and continents being able to fit together like a jig-saw puzzle
- 5. These sound waves can travel through solids, and sometimes gas and liquid as well, and are caused by movements of tectonic plates
- 7. A molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle
- 9. When oceanic and continental crust collide at a _________ boundary, subduction occurs
- 11. Strong, lower part of the mantle, rigid due to great pressure
- 13. The middle/largest layer of Earth, made of ultramafic rock
- 14. This is used to detect objects or shapes of the ocean using soundwaves
- 15. Lava that is formed in the shape of a _______ underwater near Mid-Ocean Ridges
- 22. Strange process where Earth's magnetic field periodically flips with no pattern to the frequency
- 23. This method of dividing Earth's layers involves using their physical properties rather than compositional
- 24. This plate boundary forms mid-ocean ridges and rift valleys
- 25. This protects the earth from dangerous radiation from the sun
Down
- 1. These currents bring hot, solid rock outward and cooled, solid rock inward in the Mantle
- 2. I gathered evidence for my theory of Continental Drift
- 4. This type of curst is much older than oceanic crust and is made of mostly granite
- 6. I made hand drawn maps of the cross-section of the ocean floor, and was called "girl talk"
- 8. A layer of the Earth located in the Upper Mantle underneath the Lithosphere
- 10. A curved chain of islands that is in the shape of an ___, created at convergent plate boundaries Example: Aleutian Islands
- 12. One type of dark colored rocks that make up Oceanic Crust
- 16. Dark colored rock known for its magnetic properties
- 17. Continental crust is mostly made of this type of rock
- 18. One way to divide the layers of the Earth using the chemical composition
- 19. With very high temperatures and pressure, this layer of the earth to act like a solid
- 20. The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface
- 21. Outermost, thinnest layer of the Earth that contains all land features
- 26. The rigid crust of the upper layer of the mantle, broken up into tectonic plates