Across
- 2. slow process in which an oceanic plate slides under a continental plate
- 6. process by which oceanic plates dive beneath continental plates often causing mountains to form
- 7. piles of rocky debris left by melting glaciers
- 9. chemical or physical process that break down rocks into small pieces
- 12. water areas of the earth
- 14. outer layer of the earth a hard rocky shell that forms the Earth's surface
- 17. part of the continent that extends out underneath the ocean
- 21. a crack or break in the Earth's crust
- 22. thick middle layer of the earth's interior structure
- 23. innermost layer of the earth made up of super hot but solid
Down
- 1. movement of the weathered rock and material by wind, water, or moving glaciers
- 3. process of excess water vapor changing into liquid water when warm air cools
- 4. water located underground within the Earth that supplies wells and springs
- 5. thin layer of gases that surrounds the earth
- 8. uppermost layer of the earth that includes the crust continents and ocean basins
- 10. plausible general principle offered to explain observed facts
- 11. the removal of salt from seawater to make it usable for drinking and farming
- 13. moisture that falls to the Earth as rain sleet hail or snow
- 15. underground water-bearing layers of porous rock, sand, or gravel
- 16. part of the earth where life exists
- 18. process of converting liquid into a gas
- 19. molten rock that is located below Earth's Surface
- 20. a globe shaped body
