Internal Structure of the Earth and the Different Landforms and Processes involved in their formation

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Across
  1. 2. Found at the deepest region of the planet
  2. 5. A wave of acoustic energy that travels through the Earth
  3. 6. Croatian seismologist who discovered the Mohorovicic discontinuity in 1909
  4. 9. Largest layer of the Earth that is composed of iron, aluminum, calcium, magnesium, silicon, and oxygen.
  5. 12. A predominantly slit-sized sediment formed by the accumulation of windblown dust.
  6. 13. Natural physical features on the surface of Earth. They are formed by various forces of nature such as water, wind, ice, and tectonic plates of Earth.
  7. 15. are landforms that are controlled by geological processes that form them and continually act on them after their formation
  8. 16. a deep ravine between cliffs that is often carved from the landscape by a river, wind, or glacier
  9. 17. Protects us from the harmful rays emitted by the sun.
  10. 18. The world's largest and highest plateau
  11. 19. Mounds or small hills made up of sand, measuring between 1-10m high.
  12. 20. Thinnest layer of the Earth
Down
  1. 1. Highly viscous, hotter, and ductile region of the upper mantle that is involved in plate tectonic
  2. 3. An island born after an undersea volcanic eruption at the surface of the Pacific Ocean about 600 miles south of Tokyo, Japan.
  3. 4. Scientific study of landforms and the processes that shapes them.
  4. 7. also called rock pedestal, is a naturally occurring rock that resembles the shape of a mushroom
  5. 8. Liquid iron that moves that moves in a rotational pattern which is believed to be the source of magnetic field of the Earth
  6. 10. Formed by the chemical and mechanical action of the wind
  7. 11. common element in a crust with 46.6% of weight
  8. 14. Study of the flow of matter which they respond with plastic flow rather than deforming elastically in response to an applied force.