Fall Final Review

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Across
  1. 3. theory that states the Earth's crust is not solid but broken up into many different pieces/plates
  2. 6. resources that cannot be replaced as fast as they are used
  3. 9. act of making something useful again, in this unit primarily making the land useful again
  4. 11. species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend, such that if it were removed the ecosystem would change drastically.
  5. 13. resources that can be replaced as fast as they are used
  6. 14. change in global or regional climate patterns
  7. 16. increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere (especially a sustained increase that causes climatic changes)
  8. 18. species that enter new ecosystems and multiply, harming native species and their habitats
  9. 19. scale that rates an earthquake's magnitude based on the size of its seismic waves.
  10. 20. the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
  11. 21. device that records ground movements caused by seismic waves as they move through Earth
  12. 22. plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
Down
  1. 1. boundary in which two plates slide past each other without creating or destroying lithosphere
  2. 2. measure of the impact human activities have on the environment in terms of the amount of greenhouse gases produced, measured in units of carbon dioxide
  3. 4. process by which new oceanic crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge and older oceanic crust moves away from the ridge
  4. 5. process of making new products from materials that were used in another product.
  5. 7. hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations
  6. 8. action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something
  7. 9. Involves using a resource over and over in the same form
  8. 10. scale that tells how severe a tornado is based on wind speed and the damage being caused.
  9. 12. to use less of something
  10. 15. plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
  11. 17. hurricane intensity scale that relates hurricane damage to wind speeds and central air pressures.