unit 5 earth's systems vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. core: the solid super hot center of the earth made of mostly iron and nickel
  2. 4. boundary: a place where two tectonic plates push together
  3. 6. spot: a place where magma rises from deep inside earth, forming volcanoes
  4. 8. boundary: a place where two tectonic plates move apart
  5. 10. the thickest layer of earth between the crust and the core it has hot moving rock that slowly circulates, like thick soup
  6. 11. crust: the part of earth's crust that forms land
  7. 12. field: the invisible force around the earth that protects us from the sun's radiation
  8. 13. crust: the crust under the ocean, thinner but heavier than continental crust
  9. 15. boundary: the edges where tectonic plates meet
  10. 17. the rigid, outermost shell of the Earth, encompassing the crust and the solid, brittle portion of the upper mantle.
  11. 18. something melted due to extreme heat like lava from a volcano
Down
  1. 1. boundary: a place where two tectonic plates slide past each other causing earthquakes
  2. 3. plate: a large piece of earth's crust that carries land
  3. 5. core: the liquid layer around the inner core is also made of iron and nickel
  4. 7. the flowing layer of the mantle that allows the tectonic plates to slide around.
  5. 9. plate: a huge piece of the lithosphere that moves on the asthenosphere
  6. 13. plate: a tectonic plate under the ocean, it is thinner but denser than a continental plate
  7. 14. the thin outermost layer of earth where we live
  8. 16. trench: a deep valley in the ocean floor, formed when one plate sinks under another