Across
- 3. 0° latitude line, separating the northern and southern hemispheres.
- 7. The imaginary lines that tell us how far west or east of the Prime Meridian somewhere is.
- 8. Line The International ______________ is where tomorrow starts first.
- 9. The layer of hot rock inside the Earth that slowly moves around under the crust.
- 11. The idea that the continents move around is called Continental ___________ theory.
- 12. The type of boundary where 2 tectonic plates move away from each other.
- 13. spot A spot away from plate boundaries where magma melts through the crust, often forming islands
- 14. Red hot, molten rock underground that can come up through volcanoes.
- 16. This includes all of the life on Earth.
- 17. Red hot, molten rock that has come through the crust so we can see it.
- 19. ____________ plates move around on top of the mantle, like big puzzle pieces of crust
- 22. The 7 major landmasses on Earth are each one of these.
- 23. ____________ location compares where a place is to another place.
- 26. The word we use when one tectonic plate slides under another tectonic plate.
- 29. The layer of gases that are around the outside of Earth like a bubble of air.
Down
- 1. These are the numbers for how far somewhere is from the Equator or Prime Meridian.
- 2. This includes all of the water on Earth, including oceans, rain, and inside living things.
- 4. 0° longitude line, passing through the town of Greenwich, England.
- 5. The lines on a map that show latitude and longitude.
- 6. Where 2 tectonic plates meet each other is called a plate ______________.
- 7. The layer of Earth that includes the crust and the top of the upper mantle.
- 10. A way to divide the world into 2 halves (N and S, or W and E).
- 15. ____________ location tells us exactly where a place is on a map.
- 18. The name of the supercontinent from around 250 million years ago.
- 20. The hard outside “shell” of Earth.
- 21. These numbers & letters tell us the exact location of a place on a map.
- 24. The imaginary lines that tell us how far north or south of the Equator somewhere is.
- 25. The type of boundary where 2 tectonic plates move towards each other.
- 27. The type of boundary where 2 tectonic plates slide beside each other.
- 28. The very center of the Earth.
