Earth Science Part 2 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. The process of new oceanic floor forming from magma coming to the surface at mid ocean ridges
  2. 4. Water sinking into the ground
  3. 6. Gas to Liquid
  4. 7. A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed by decomposition, pressure, and heat turned into organic matter.
  5. 13. Frozen parts of the Earth
  6. 14. Plants giving off water
  7. 16. Air of the Earth
  8. 17. Plants taking up water through roots
  9. 19. Water that doesn't go into the ground
  10. 20. The hypothesis that a single large landmass broke up into smaller landmasses to form the continents, which then drifted to their present locations
  11. 23. Transform marine sediments into rock and release Carbon Dioxide through volcanic activity
  12. 26. Ice and snow to gas
  13. 27. Any of the almost spherical concentric regions of matter that make up the earth and its atmosphere, as the lithosphere and hydrosphere.
  14. 29. The geological process of rocks breaking apart without changing their chemical composition. Ex: Moving water, Icing, Thawing, and Plant roots
  15. 30. Life of the Earth
  16. 32. The geological process by which rocks break down as a result of chemical reactions. Ex oxidation, carbonation, hydrolysis, hydration and dehydration.
  17. 33. Rock of the Earth
  18. 35. Water of the Earth
Down
  1. 1. Water traveling underground
  2. 3. Liquid to Gas
  3. 5. The separating of tectonic plates
  4. 8. rain/snow/sleet
  5. 9. The sliding back and forth of tectonic plates
  6. 10. 660 to 2700 km below the surface. Mostly Silicon, Iron, Magnesium, Aluminum, and Oxygen in rock.
  7. 11. A pathway by which a chemical substance moves through biotic and abiotic compartments of Earth.
  8. 12. Theory that explains how large pieces of the lithosphere moved and changed shape
  9. 15. A condition of gravitational and buoyant equilibrium between Earth's lithosphere and asthenosphere
  10. 18. The colliding of tectonic plates
  11. 21. Movement of water to another area
  12. 22. 2900 km below the Earth's surface. Mostly Iron and Nickel. Inner core is solid. Outer core is liquid.
  13. 24. The supercontinent that formed 300 million years ago and that began to break up 200 million years ago
  14. 25. Crust 25 to 75 Km thick. Mostly Granite.
  15. 28. The rock material carried and deposited by glaciers
  16. 31. A process in which the materials of Earth's surface are loosened, dissolved, or worn away and transported from one place to another by a natural agent. Ex: Wind, water, ice and gravity
  17. 34. 6 Km thick. Mostly Basalt