Module 5 Crossword

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Across
  1. 7. Small, solid pieces of material from rocks or organisms; earth materials deposited by erosion.
  2. 8. The broken pieces of the Earth's lithosphere and outer solid shell separated by cracks.
  3. 10. Process by which sediments are removed by water, wind, ice, and gravity`
  4. 11. all the water on the earth’s surface
  5. 13. practice of planting different crops sequentially on the same plot of land to improve soil health, optimize nutrients in the soil, and combat pest and weed pressure
  6. 15. Currents that drive the movement of Earth's rigid tectonic plates in the planet's mantle.
  7. 16. Transference of energy through the Earth.
  8. 17. whole mass of air that surrounds the earth
  9. 20. The solid part of the Earth that includes the crust and upper mantle
  10. 22. A trembling and shaking of the earth's surface resulting from the sudden release of energy in the crust, either along fault lines or from volcanic activity.
  11. 24. Process by which rock is broken down by water, wind, ice, and heat.
Down
  1. 1. A seismic wave that shakes the ground back and forth perpendicular to the direction the wave is moving.
  2. 2. Theory that states the Earth's crust broken into plates that float on the upper mantle.
  3. 3. Underneath the lithosphere in the middle mantle layer composed mostly of molten rock.
  4. 4. The average weather conditions of an area over time, usually about thirty years.
  5. 5. A wave that shakes the ground back and forth in the same direction but in the opposite direction as the direction the wave is moving.
  6. 6. The layer that is beneath the asthenosphere in the lower mantle
  7. 9. A series of processes on the surface and inside Earth that slowly changes rocks from one type to another type.
  8. 12. Wegener's idea that there was gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.
  9. 14. Made of loose, weathered rock and organic material in which plants with roots can grow. The rock material is composed of sand, silt, and clay.
  10. 18. Naturally occurring inorganic solid with an orderly crystalline structure and definite chemical composition.
  11. 19. place where all soil formation takes place as a result of the atmosphere, lithosphere, and hydrosphere coming together
  12. 21. The ability of soil to sustain plant growth and optimize crops.
  13. 23. The central part of the Earth.