How Earth Morphs

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Across
  1. 3. The study of how energy and forces shape earth.
  2. 5. Partly melted areas that carry electric currents.
  3. 7. Earth had one giant land mass.
  4. 9. Plates that slide past each other at places.
  5. 10. of Fire; A combination of upwelling and sinking plates explains the volcanoes around the Pacific Ocean rim.
Down
  1. 1. The rising of hot rock from the mantle of Earths surface
  2. 2. plates; They are huge moving slabs that together make up earths surface. They can interact in different ways that collide and can crush against each other.
  3. 4. Process that takes place at convergent boundaries by which one tectonic boundaries moves under another tectonic plate and sinks into the Mantle.
  4. 5. Temperature propelled movement once it gets back down to the surface and cools off again, then it will sink back down.
  5. 6. Middle part of earths layers. ex: Thick layer of hard boiled egg.
  6. 8. tectonics; Huge masses of rock that rise from deep inside Earth, travel along its surface and then sink back down.