Across
- 3. include lavas that form during volcanic eruptions
- 4. a flow of particles that comes off the sun at about one million miles per hour and travels throughout the entire solar system.
- 5. coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz
- 7. outer shell is divided into large slabs of solid rock, called “plates,”
- 8. the movement of gases due to heat and gravity.
- 11. instruments used to record the motion of the ground during an earthquake
- 13. sediments, oceanic crust, and mantle lithosphere return to
- 14. doughnut shaped zones of highly energetic charged particles trapped at high altitudes in the magnetic field of Earth.
- 15. interdisciplinary field that applies geoscientific principles to the study of extraterrestrial bodies and matter
- 16. fine-grained volcanic rock that sometimes displays a columnar structure
- 17. meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac.
Down
- 1. to change in composition or structure
- 2. planets begin to melt, the materials in them begin to separate from one another
- 6. a rock that has been changed by pressure and temperature over time
- 9. formed on or near the Earth's surface from the compression of ocean sediments
- 10. the region around a planet dominated by the planet's magnetic field.
- 11. waves an elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake or other means.
- 12. where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other
