Restless Earth Vocab List

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Across
  1. 4. A group of the same species living in the same area
  2. 6. new oceanic crust is formed as a tectonic plates pull apart and magma rises
  3. 8. Extinction events that occur over a long time period
  4. 11. deep elongated depressions in the ocean, often associated with subduction zones
Down
  1. 1. sudden events that led to a mass extinction
  2. 2. rock formed when lava or magma cools and hardens
  3. 3. hot material rises, cooler materials sink. it drives plate tectonics.
  4. 5. name of the ancient supercontinent when it was all one landmass
  5. 7. Instruments used to measure and record seismic waves
  6. 9. Rock formed when lava or magma cools and hardens
  7. 10. formed after weathering and erosion when sediments compact and cement