Science thingy

4. Any sudden shaking of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves through Earth's rocks.
8. The movement of continents resulting from the motion of tectonic plates.
10. Massive slab of solid rock made up of Earth's lithosphere
12. A mixture of gases that surrounds the Earth. It helps make life possible by providing us with air to breathe
13. When two plates come together, it is known as

1. The action or process in plate tectonics of the edge of one crustal plate descending below the edge of another
2. Occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other.
3. A fluid layer about 1,400 miles thick, composed of mostly iron and nickel that lies above Earth's solid inner core
5. The mostly solid bulk of Earth's interior.
6. The solid, outer part of Earth,bounded by the atmosphere above and the asthenosphere
7. The innermost layer of the Earth and is located at the direct center of the Earth below the outer core.
9. A logarithmic scale used to rate the strength or total energy of earthquakes. The scale has no upper limit but usually ranges from 1 to 9.
11. The outermost shell of a terrestrial planet.