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4. energy that comes from a source and travels through space at the speed of light.
6. a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock.
7. hot fluid material below the earth's crust from which lava is formed on cooling.
8. result for define ring of fire
10. the process by which heat is transferred by movement of a heated fluid such as air or water.
13. The Earth's surface is cracked into large pieces called
15. long valley formed by the sinking of the earth's crust between two parallel or nearly parallel faults or groups of faults.

1. when an oceanic plate runs into a continental plate and slides beneath it.
2. hot molten rock erupted from a volcano
3. supercontinent formed during the late Paleozoic era that existed until the late Triassic era approximately 280 - 230 million years ago.
5. A flat sheet of metal especially one used as an electrode in a storage battery or capacitor, or as the anode of an electron tube.
9. the quality or state of being dense.
11. openings where lava and steam erupt onto the Earth's surface.
12. trace of an animal or plant of a past geologic age that has been preserved in Earth's crust.
14. the process by which heat energy is transmitted through collisions between neighboring atoms or molecules.