Earth Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a massive, irregular shaped slab of rock, generally composed of both continental and oceanic lithosphere
  2. 6. a long narrow island that stretches along a coastline
  3. 8. the process by which rocks are broken down into sediments slowly over time
  4. 9. the rocky outer part of the Earth and is made up of brittle crust and the top part of the upper mantle
  5. 17. rivers flow into oceans and sediments begin to pile up around the rivers mouth
  6. 18. man who created the theory of continental drift(last name only)
  7. 21. studied divergent plate boundaries at the mid ocean ridge (last name only)
  8. 22. older of the two crusts, located under landforms
  9. 23. a rock that id deep in Earth's crust created by both heat and pressure
  10. 25. particles stop moving and settle where erosion agents have carried them
  11. 26. younger of the two crusts
  12. 27. layers of rock
  13. 30. located below the lithosphere, where molten rock flows slowly
  14. 32. when plates move away from one another, created trenches
  15. 33. seafloor mountain system
Down
  1. 1. the study of rock layers
  2. 3. weathering where rocks break down through chemical processes that change the rocks chemical composition
  3. 4. when plates slide under one another, creates mountain ranges
  4. 5. is a region's typical weather conditions over a long period of time
  5. 7. moves sediments to other locations
  6. 10. insertion of molten rock that cooled
  7. 11. where magma from Earth's mantle wells up in the mid ocean ridge, pushing the ocean floor apart
  8. 12. fossils that can identify the age of rock layers
  9. 13. a crack where sections move up
  10. 14. center of Earth
  11. 15. is the surface features of a region
  12. 16. is something that causes something else
  13. 19. weathering break down of rock into smaller pieces called sediments through a physical process
  14. 20. supercontinent
  15. 23. thick layer of molten rock between the core and the crust
  16. 24. a process by which hot material rises and cooler material sinks creating circular movement
  17. 28. a rock that is formed from lava or magma that has cooled and solidifies
  18. 29. a rock that is formed when sediments are forced together after they break down
  19. 31. wind can blow sand grains to form these, found along beaches and deserts