Lithosphere Vocab

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Across
  1. 5. any rock cooled from a molten state
  2. 9. movement cause in a gas or liquid by hot rising and cool sinking
  3. 11. rocks made of oxygen and silicon
  4. 12. regions of high energy ions in the magnetosphere
  5. 13. rocks made of fragments of igneous rocks
  6. 14. explains how slow motions in the mantle move large segments of the crust
  7. 15. charged particles that flow from the surface of the Sun
  8. 16. areas far from plate boundaries where heat is rising from the Earth
Down
  1. 1. science that deals with Earth’s physical structure
  2. 2. a change of direction when something enters at an angle
  3. 3. when one tectonic plate is forced under another
  4. 4. the outermost shell of the Earth
  5. 6. the Earth’s magnetic field that extends toward the Sun
  6. 7. the largest part of the Earth between the crust and core
  7. 8. oceanic volcanic rocks
  8. 9. made of iron, nickel, and sulfur
  9. 10. a unit of measure equal to one thousand meters
  10. 13. vibrations that travel through Earth that cause earthquakes