Unit 3 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. An object such as a moon or spacecraft that orbits a planetary body.
  2. 5. This crust is denser and younger than continental crust.
  3. 9. A type of map used to determine the tallest mountain elevation.
  4. 11. Energy that allows raindrops to fall to Earth's surface.
  5. 12. The hottest layer of the Earth that is metal.
  6. 14. This part of the Geosphere includes the crust and the upper mantle.
Down
  1. 1. A layer of gases that surround a planet.
  2. 2. The process water goes through that involves the flow of solar energy through Earth's system. Water goes from a liquid to a gas.
  3. 4. An imaginary line of 0-degree latitude that splits the Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemisphere.
  4. 6. A hot mobile layer of the Earth of partially molten rock below Earth's lithosphere.
  5. 7. Type of energy that causes Earth to be hotter at the equator than the North or South poles.
  6. 8. Animals belong to this "sphere" of the Earth.
  7. 10. A topographical map is technically this type of map.
  8. 13. The layer of Earth's geosphere that is the coolest.