Across
- 1. massive, irregularly shaped slab of solid rock, generally composed of both continental and oceanic lithosphere
- 4. Where living being/things can live
- 6. a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water
- 8. is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age
- 9. occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge
- 11. type of elastic wave, and are one of the two main types of elastic body waves, so named because they move through the body of an object, unlike surface waves
- 15. any separation in a geologic formation, such as a joint or a fault that divides the rock into two or more pieces
- 16. complex portion of the tectonic boundary between the Eurasian Plate and the Philippine Sea Plate
- 18. a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
- 21. composed of iron and nickel which lies above the Earth's solid inner core and below its mantle
- 23. a long, narrow ditch
- 25. movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other, thus appearing to "drift" across the ocean bed
- 26. is the name for all material of glacial origin found anywhere on land or at sea, including sediment and large rocks
- 28. the upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere
- 29. Which crust are made of
- 31. locations where two plates slide past one another
- 34. series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake
- 37. Heat energy can transfer by convection when there is a significant difference in temperature between two parts of a fluid
- 39. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle
- 41. a record recorder from seismograph
- 42. fossil fuel that forms when dead plant matter is converted into peat
- 43. Which the core is made of
- 45. underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics
- 47. the point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake
- 48. the boundary surface between the earth's crust and the mantle
- 49. the crust is the outermost solid shell of a rocky planet, dwarf planet, or natural satellite
- 50. one of the scientists who created continental drift theory
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- 1. supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras
- 2. Mostly Outer Core is made of
- 3. When the subduction gets lower the trench gets...
- 5. seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia
- 7. central innermost, or most essential part of Earth
- 10. It is composed of several layers, not including the overlying sediment
- 12. where two plates are moving toward each other
- 13. sudden shaking of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves through Earth's rocks
- 14. the largest and best-known genus of the extinct order of seed ferns
- 17. a process which the oceanic plate is subduct
- 19. ocean density
- 20. When the subduction is fast, the ocean...
- 22. large-scale processes affecting the structure of the earth's crust
- 24. is a type of volcanic arc occurring as an "arc-shape"
- 27. is a change in a planet's magnetic field such that the positions of magnetic north and magnetic south are interchanged
- 30. GEOLOGY (of a rock formation) be broken by a fault or faults
- 32. is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object
- 33. hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed by cooling
- 35. was a German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist
- 36. the age where the dinasour still lives
- 38. an instrument that measures motion of the ground
- 40. is a layer inside a terrestrial planet and some other rocky planetary bodies
- 44. composed of an iron–nickel alloy and some other elements
- 46. Continental Plate Density