Word Vocab M2
Across
- 2. Molten rock that is located below earth's surface
- 5. The movement of weathered rock and material by wind, glaciers, and moving water; the wearing away of soil
- 6. Outer layer of the earth, hard rocky shell forming earth's surface
- 7. Thick middle layer of the earth's interior structure consisting of hot rock that is dense but flexible
- 9. A bend in layers of rock, sometimes, caused by plate movement
- 12. The watery areas of earth, including oceans, lakes, rivers, and other bodies of water
- 13. The part of earth where life exists
- 14. A crack or break in earth's crust
- 15. Tectonic The term scientists use to describe the activities of continental drift and magma flow which create many of earth's physical features
Down
- 1. Chemical or physical processes that break down rocks into smaller pieces
- 3. Innermost layer of earth made up of a super hot but solid inner core and super hot liquid outer core
- 4. A thin layer of gases that surrounds the Earth
- 8. Uppermost layer of the earth that includes the crust, continents, and ocean basins
- 10. The theory that the continents were once joined and then slowly drifted apart
- 11. Part of a continent that extends out underneath the ocean