Chapter 1 Vocab Words - Mrs. Dixon - 2nd period

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Across
  1. 1. A long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance
  2. 3. The transfer of heat from circulation
  3. 4. The Earth's surface is made up of a series of large plates (like pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzle).
  4. 6. One plate being drawn over another
  5. 10. the scientific theory that attempts to explain the movements of the Earth's lithosphere that have formed the landscape features we see across the globe today.
  6. 13. New crust is created as two plates move away from each other
Down
  1. 1. parts of the Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core.
  2. 2. A long, narrow, evacuation into the ground
  3. 5. A process when new floor is created by molten lava
  4. 7. A series of vibrations induced in the Earth's crust
  5. 8. Two plates are sliding horizontally against one another
  6. 9. Runs along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
  7. 11. The 3 types are Convergent, Divergent, and Transform
  8. 12. Crust is destroyed and recycled