Across
- 3. solid crust, semi-solid mantle, liquid core, solid core
- 9. percent of solar radiation reflected by a surface, dark surfaces have low
- 12. a boundary where earth's tectonic plates move toward each other. This causes a collision or subduction. This will result in the formation of volcanoes and mountain ranges.
- 13. the solid part of the earth consisting of the crust and outer mantle
- 17. the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time
- 18. the layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone layer; temperature increases as you go up
- 19. the outermost shell of the atmosphere, between the mesosphere and outer space, where temperatures increase steadily with altitude.
- 20. plates move apart
Down
- 1. boundaries the edges of tectonic plates.
- 2. The water in the Eastern Pacific Ocean is cooler than usual-opposite from El Nino
- 4. first layer of atmosphere. Contains weather, greenhouse gases (bad ozone).
- 5. a weather pattern created by the warming of the waters off the west coast of South America, which pushes warm water and heavy rains toward the Americas and produces drought conditions in Australia and Asia.
- 6. plate This is a tectonic plate that is a thinner, denser and heavier type
- 7. This tectonic plate is thicker but lighter plate that makes up most continents
- 8. a geological process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced sideways and downward into the mantle below another plate
- 10. the movement of a fluid, caused by differences in temperature, that transfers heat from one part of the fluid to another
- 11. the layer of the atmosphere between the stratosphere and the thermosphere and in which temperature decreases as altitude increases
- 14. convection current in the atmosphere that cycles between the equator and 30° N and 30° S.
- 15. the meteorological conditions: temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation
- 16. Plates slide past each other