TMorrison Crossword

6. The definition of one plate forced to go underneath another
8. Volcanic rocks produced from the cooling of volcanic lava
9. Two plates moving and crashing into one another
10. The largest layer of Earth that is almost completely solid
11. Where heat escapes upward towards warmer material and the slow sinking of coolness
14. An idea that explains slow motions within the mantle move Earth’s crust
16. Study of the Earth’s crust and the processes that shape it throughout history
17. Regions of high-energy ions in the Magnetosphere
18. Where Earth’s magnetic field can trap small amounts of electrons
19. Plates that slide parallel to each other

1. The process of different crust plates pushing away from each other
2. The process of sorting the major components of a planet by density
3. Seismic waves that bend depending on the materials it encounters
4. Made of fragments igneous fragments and shells of organisms pressed into a layer
5. Areas away from plate boundaries where heat is rising to the surface
6. Waves that travel through Earth caused by earthquakes/explosion sites
7. Any type of rock that has cooled from a molten state
12. Made when high pressure/temperature alters igneous/sedimentary rock
13. Used to detect seismic waves
15. Charged particles flowing from the sun