Chapter 11 - The Earth

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Across
  1. 2. looping heat currents that moves rock & plates
  2. 3. a process of rock being gradually deposited. Eventually the loose sediments compress & combine to form sedimentary rock.
  3. 4. an inorganic (not alive) compound existing as a solid with a regularly repeating internal structure
  4. 6. four layers & 1800 mi. thick,denser than crust
  5. 7. a solid combination of one or more minerals found in the Earth’s crust
  6. 9. forms from hot molten rock that cools & solidifies
  7. 11. Ridge is an example of divergent plate boundaries
  8. 13. drift is the slow movement of techtonic plates
  9. 14. the inner core, mostly liquid iron with two parts
  10. 15. boundaries occur when two plates come together
  11. 16. boundaries occur when two plates slide past each other
  12. 17. molten rock that has surfaced
  13. 19. are common along convergent boundaries
Down
  1. 1. the part of the earth related to land
  2. 4. rock is pressed and transforms its shape
  3. 5. plates are irregular in shape & are mostly rock
  4. 8. rock is made from deposits of igneous & metamorphic rock
  5. 10. minerals are used only one time
  6. 12. boundaries occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other
  7. 18. molten rock beneath the earth