Physcial Geography

4. In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement along the fractures as a result of earth movement
8. Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and atomic number 79
9. Amount of energy of an earthquake measured by The Richter Scale from 1 to 9
12. Alfred Wegner's theory that the continents were once joined together
14. Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea.
15. The dense nuclear furance found at the center of the Eatrh
16. A cactus is a member of the plant family Cactaceae
19. An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the result of a sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust that creates seismic waves
20. A volcano is an opening, or rupture, in the surface or crust of the Earth or a planetary mass object

1. The thick zone of molten material beneath the Earth's litosphere
2. A German scientist, gave the first explantion for the fact that all the contients have joined together
3. The chili pepper is the fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum, members of the nightshade family, Solanaceae
5. The study of plate movement to understand the formation of mountains, volcanoes and earthquakes
6. A geological fold occurs when one or a stack of originally flat and planar surfaces, such as sedimentary strata, are bent or curved as a result of permanent deformation
7. The Ring of Fire is a string of volcanoes and sites of seismic activity, or earthquakes, around the edges of the Pacific Ocean
10. The geologic time scale (GTS) is a system of chronological measurement that relates stratigraphy to time
11. Alfred Wegners explantion of all the continents being joined together we called this theory Pangaea
13. Ejections of lava from an active volcano
17. The layer of Earth that humans live on, plants grow and animals live
18. Facebook is an online social networking service