Across
- 2. the superhighway in the sky that moves water everywhere over the Earth.
- 7. water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
- 9. the movement of water into the ground from the surface.
- 10. a location where two tectonic plates are moving toward each other, often causing one plate to slide below the other
- 13. thin shell on the outside of Earth
- 15. the solid, outer part of the Earth
- 16. linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
Down
- 1. a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have erupted from the earth's crust.
- 3. where the cold oceanic lithosphere sinks back into the mantle and is recycled
- 4. a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
- 5. the upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere, in which there is relatively low resistance to plastic flow and convection is thought to occur.
- 6. the process of water vapor turning back into liquid water
- 8. an area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet such as the outflow of a reservoir, mouth of a bay, or any point along a stream channel.
- 11. the generally accepted scientific theory that considers the Earth's lithosphere
- 12. occurs when tectonic plates meet at a convergent boundary both bearing continental lithosphere
- 14. the mostly-solid bulk of Earth's interior