Formations of Hawai'i Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. Lava that erupts on land. It is flows fast, cools fast, and is "chunky
  2. 7. The theory that Earth's crust is made up of several large plates that all move and shift about with each other.
  3. 10. The natural act of soil and rock being removed from one location and being deposited somewhere else.
  4. 11. Coral reef that grows directly from shore, like a belt around the island.
  5. 12. An intensely hot area of the mantle.
Down
  1. 1. Coral reef that is separated from an eroding island by a lagoon.
  2. 3. Watermelon-shaped lava that erupts and cools rapidly underwater.
  3. 4. The cycling of magma in the mantle due to intense heat from the Inner Core.
  4. 5. The layer of earth that lies between the core and crust. Convection currents occur in this layer
  5. 6. The innermost layer of earth. It is intensely hot and made out of nickel and iron.
  6. 8. The outermost layer of the earth. It is divided up into several plates of oceanic and continental crust.
  7. 9. The tectonic plate that the Hawaiian Islands rest on.
  8. 13. Lava that erupts on land. It flows and cools slowly in smooth "ropes."