Plate Tectonics, Erosion, and Geologic Time

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Across
  1. 1. Process by which eroded material is dropped
  2. 2. Process by which sediment and other materials are moved from one place to another
  3. 6. The theory that explains how large pieces of the outermost layer, called tectonic plates move and change shape
  4. 7. The path that a stream flows through eroded soil and rock
  5. 8. The measure of a change in elevation over a certain distance
  6. 9. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
  7. 10. Pieces that the lithosphere is divided into
  8. 12. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are colliding
  9. 14. The water that is beneath Earth’s surface
  10. 15. A mass of material deposited in a triangular or fan shape at the mouth of a river or stream
  11. 17. A fan shaped mass of material deposited by a stream when the slope of the land decreases sharply
Down
  1. 1. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
  2. 3. The amount of water that a stream carries in a given amount of time
  3. 4. Single landmass that all the continents formed 300 million years ago
  4. 5. An area of shoreline that is made up of material deposited by waves and currents
  5. 11. The boundary between land and a body of water
  6. 13. A scale used to divide Earth’s long natural history into manageable parts
  7. 16. The movement of matter due to changes in density; the transfer of energy due to the movement of matter
  8. 18. Materials carried by a stream are called this
  9. 19. An area along a river that forms from sediments deposited when the river overflows its banks