Earth's Systems & Structures

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Across
  1. 4. An underwater mountain range where new ocean floor is made.
  2. 5. A big piece of the Earth's surface that moves very slowly.
  3. 7. A force that tries to push, pull, or twist something.
  4. 8. The thick middle layer of the Earth.
  5. 9. The hard outer layer of the Earth, made of rocks and dirt.
  6. 10. A crack in the Earth where earthquakes can happen.
  7. 11. The very center of the Earth made of solid paarts.
  8. 12. The name of the supercontinent that existed long ago.
  9. 13. A way to measure how strong an earthquake is.
  10. 16. The soft layer under the hard outer layer where rocks can slowly move.
  11. 18. The Earth's outer skin.
  12. 19. Smaller earthquakes that happen after the big one.
  13. 20. The place right above where an earthquake starts.
  14. 21. The movement that happens when warm stuff rises and cool stuff sinks.
Down
  1. 1. A place where hot material from deep within the Earth comes up to the surface.
  2. 2. The idea that continents move around on the Earth's surface.
  3. 3. How much stuff is packed into a space.
  4. 6. When the ground shakes because of energy released from the Earth.
  5. 14. The part of the Earth's crust that makes up the continents.
  6. 15. Hot, melted rock that comes out of a volcano.
  7. 17. A tool that records how much the ground shakes during an earthquake.