Inside the Earth and the Rock Cycle

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Across
  1. 3. The scientist who said continental drift could occur because of thermal convection in the mantle
  2. 5. Small bits of rock being carried by water or wind
  3. 7. Rocks formed by melted rock erupting and cooling
  4. 9. The connecting of compacted small bits rock into a sedimentary rock
  5. 12. The layer of the earth that likely produces the magnetic field
  6. 14. Igneous rock that cools under the surface
  7. 17. Igneous rock that cools on the surface
  8. 18. Rocks formed by pressure on rock particles
  9. 19. Rocks formed by extreme heat and pressure
Down
  1. 1. Metamorphic rock without visible layers
  2. 2. The Navy scientist who mapped the sea floor and supported the idea of plate tectonics
  3. 4. The squishing together of small bits of rock
  4. 6. Metamorphic rock with visible layers
  5. 8. Small bits of rock being dropped and usually buried by water and wind
  6. 10. The hot dense middle layer of the earth
  7. 11. The action of wind, water, ice, and sun to break small bits of rock off of the land
  8. 13. The outer layer of the earth broken into tectonic plates
  9. 15. The inside layer of the earth spinning very fast and heated to 10,000 F
  10. 16. The scientist who in 1915 proposed the idea of continental drift