Across
- 2. Plate boundary where plates slide past one another.
- 3. Study of landforms and how they are created; the Earth “wants” to be flat.
- 5. Human‑caused driver of erosion through removal of forests.
- 6. Fracture where earthquakes commonly occur.
- 10. Mass movement of weathered materials; often slow, sometimes rapid.
- 11. The biologically active A horizon of mineral soil (topmost layer).
- 12. Ancient supercontinent that later broke apart.
- 14. Large ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake.
- 15. Breakdown of rocks, minerals, and soils due to exposure to elements.
- 16. Sudden release of built‑up stress at fault lines.
- 17. Land‑based mass of ice/snow/rock moving downslope under its own weight.
- 18. Landform associated with endogenic activity; often at plate boundaries.
- 19. Plate boundary where plates push toward each other.
Down
- 1. Dark, organic‑rich top layer of soil formed from decaying matter.
- 2. Theory of Earth’s plates/layers moving slowly together and apart.
- 4. Subsurface water resource historically supported by glacial activity.
- 7. Processes occurring externally to Earth’s surface.
- 8. Plate boundary where plates push away from each other.
- 9. German scientist who proposed continental drift.
- 13. Processes occurring from within Earth’s surface.
