Science vocab

2. boundary the area along the edges of earth's plates
4. a bend in rocks
9. made liquid by heat
10. a meteor that is large enough to survive its passage through earth's atmosphere and hit the ground
11. a region of earth's interior immediately below the lithosphere where mantle rocks are not enough and under enough pressure to deform change shape and flow
13. waves A general term for waves produced by earthquakes or artificially through explosions
15. crust the parts of earth's crust that form the continents
17. the mass of quantity of a substance per unit volume
18. crust the parts of earth's crust that are under the ocean; these are the thinnest parts

1. mountains mountains that form when one side of a fault is lifted above the other side
3. a fracture through rock along which the masses of rock on either side of the fracture
5. the rigid outer layer of earth, made of the crust and the solid, uppermost part of the mantle
6. core the outer layer of earth's core made of melted liquid metal
7. the study of earthquakes and the structure of earth, using information from seismic waves
8. the parts ingredients or elements that form a whole
12. a streak of light in the night sky that results when a small solid object hits earth's atmosphere
14. core the inner layer of earth's core believed to be made of solid iron and nickel
16. the ability to cause matter to move or change