Unit 3 Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. a place where hot gases, smoke, and melted rock come out of the ground onto Earth’s surfaceMagma- the liquid rock below Earth’s crust
  2. 3. the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
  3. 6. a shaking of Earth’s surface that can cause land to rise and fall
  4. 8. the boundary between two tectonic plates moving AWAY from each other
  5. 11. natural land shape or feature
  6. 14. molten rock that erupts from the volcano along with ash and hot gases
  7. 15. very small pieces of rock
  8. 17. Tectonics the theory that Earth’s crust is divided into plates that are always moving
  9. 18. Scale measures the magnitude of an earthquake on a scale of 1-10
  10. 20. the process of moving weathered rock from one place to anothe Deposition- the dropping of weathered rock by wind or moving water
Down
  1. 1. the strength of an earthquake
  2. 4. the process of rock breaking apart
  3. 5. a break in the Earth’s crust where rock on one side moves in relation to rock on the other side
  4. 7. scientist that studies earthquakes
  5. 9. scientist that studies volcanoes
  6. 10. the boundary between two tectonic plates that are COLLIDING with each other
  7. 12. the point on Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
  8. 13. thick layer of Earth beneath the crust
  9. 16. the layer of Earth extending from Earth’s center to the bottom of the mantle (Metallic)
  10. 19. the thin outer layer of Earth