Earth the Biography: Volcanoes 🌋

4. Found in the deepest part of the oceans that support diverse life.
5. New Zealand mountain range formed when the Pacific Plate collided with the Australian Plate.
7. Volcanoes created the conditions for a great _ leap forward.
9. Where an earthquake caused the Himalayas to grow 6 feet in October of 2005
12. One of Jupiter’s moons that might be like what Earth was 700 million years ago.
14. Mountain range in South America.
15. Source of Earth’s internal heat.
16. Use dissolved carbon in the oceans for photosynthesis and to make their shells. They become part of the ocean floor when they die.
17. One of the most volcanically active places on Earth, located in New Zealand.
22. Mountain range in Europe.
24. Name of the river in South America that erodes the Andes mountains into the Indian Ocean.
26. Created by and destroyer of mountains.
28. A period of colder global temperatures and recurring glacial expansion capable of lasting hundreds of millions of years.
29. Found where plates collide and contribute to the cycling of carbon back into the atmosphere.

1. Gas pumped out by volcanoes that traps heat in the atmosphere.
2. One of the oldest life forms on Earth.
3. What Earth would become if the tectonic plates stopped moving.
6. Shield volcano located in Eastern Africa that has a lava lake in its crater. AKA "Smoking Mountain"
7. The first fossils that provided evidence of complex life on Earth.
8. Name of the supercontinent that existed 250 million years ago.
10. Form when plates collide.
11. Runs through Iceland separating the North American Plate from the Eurasian Plate.
13. Saint Helens Name of the subduction volcano that erupted on May 18th, 1980 and is currently building for another eruption.
18. Mountains of central Asia.
19. Location with hot springs heated by a magma plume that is relatively close to the surface of the Earth.
20. Provided Earth with the warmth, water, and chemicals that allowed life to emerge.
21. Thought to have ended at least one of Earth’s ice ages.
23. The name of the island created by a volcanic eruption in Iceland in 1963.
25. Subduction volcanoes
27. Planet with more carbon dioxide in its atmosphere than Earth.