NMI History

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Across
  1. 3. liquefied by heat
  2. 4. a submarine mountain
  3. 6. a micro tectonic plate located west of the Mariana Trench
  4. 8. the physical elements of landforms such as ice-capped mountains, hills, water bodies such as rivers, lakes, ponds, and the seas
  5. 10. the resistance that one surface or object encounters when moving over another
  6. 11. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate
  7. 14. hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling
  8. 15. a geographinc area, including both cultural and natural resources and the wildlife or domestic animals they are in, associated with historic event, activity, or person, or exhibiting other cultural values
  9. 21. a long, narrow open container for animals to eat or drink out of
  10. 22. gigantic pieces of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle
  11. 24. the deepest known point of the seabed of Earth.
  12. 25. an opening in or near a volcano, through which hot sulfurous gases emerge
  13. 26. having no living members; no longer in existence.
Down
  1. 1. the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at midocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side.
  2. 2. more general and can be used relative to the surroundings of the object
  3. 5. areas of weakness in the volcano which form early in its lifetime, likely due to spreading of the volcano as it settles
  4. 7. a mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth
  5. 9. a small rocky body orbiting the sun
  6. 12. an oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean
  7. 13. the mostly solid bulk of Earth's interior
  8. 16. the outermost part of the Earth
  9. 17. denial, in military affairs, a defensive strategy used to make it prohibitively difficult for an opponent to achieve a military objective
  10. 18. describes the location of a place based on a fixed point on Earth
  11. 19. a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust.
  12. 20. an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about 200 kilometres (124 mi) east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest trench
  13. 23. an expert in or student of geology
  14. 24. a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust