Across
- 1. Earth's interior layer where convection transfers heat from the core outwards
- 3. Field created by a hot rotating core, invisible protector above Earth from solar winds
- 6. a less dense, rising, hot "balloon" of magma beneath Earth's surface
- 9. the state in the US that receives the most earthquakes annually
- 11. There's a whole lotta shakin' going on!
- 12. caused by density differences from uneven heating of earth's interior and atmosphere
- 13. when two tectonic plates collide
- 16. Earth's center
- 17. long mountain range south of the US that was created by a convergent plate boundary
- 18. name give to rocks that come from melting and solidification. Think ignition or fire!
- 19. Spot area on land on under the water where hot rock material makes its way to the surface regularly, not along a plate boundary
Down
- 1. hot rock material underneath earth's surface
- 2. Japanese name for seismic sea wave
- 4. a country, large island in the pacific, that is almost right on a convergent plate boundary. lots of volcanoes and earthquakes
- 5. when two tectonic plates separate
- 7. hot rock material above earth's surface
- 8. name given to the area between and overriding plate and an underriding plate when they collide.
- 10. Earth's rocky thin exterior layer
- 14. Name given to a mountain created by hot, extrusive rock material shot out of Earth's interior
- 15. a measure of how tightly packed the molecules of a substance are