ESS Crossword

5. the solid, outer part of Earth.
7. a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock.
9. what happens when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another.
11. scientific study of the deformation of the rocks that make up the Earth's crust and the forces that produce such deformation.
13. the movement of particles through a substance,
16. preserved remains of plants and animals whose bodies were buried in sediments,
17. a super-continent that incorporated almost all the landmasses on Earth

1. occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other.
2. area around the North Pole or the South Pole
3. separate different regions of Earth.
4. a name for all sediment
5. When magma flows onto Earth's surface
6. the outermost shell of a terrestrial planet.
8. the mostly solid bulk of Earth's interior.
10. is the zone of the earth which lies beneath the lithosphere.
11. a type of fault in which two tectonic plates slide past one another.
12. an area on Earth where two or more lithospheric plates collide.Plate
14. a central region in an economy, with good communications and high population density, which leads to its prosperity
15. a large land mass separated from other land masses by oceans