Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

2. The sphere that involves the rock cycle and all of our studies of plate tectonics.
7. Plate, large plates of lithosphere.
9. The second major layer of Earth's atmosphere.
12. Gibbous, More than half of the illuminated part of the moon is seen.
13. The rigid, rocky outer surface of the Earth.
15. The largest layer of the Earth.
16. Plate Boundaries, When two plates meet and slip/grind alongside one another. This often causes earthquakes.
17. A sea of gases that support and protect the entire biosphere.
18. The outermost layer of the atmosphere.
19. The lowest region of the atmosphere.

1. The part of Earth in which living things interact with nonliving things.
3. Process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle.
4. A gas made up of oxygen molecules that each have 3 oxygen atoms.
5. Quarter, You can see exactly half of the illuminated part of the moon.
6. Boundaries, Boundary between two plates that are moving apart or rifting.
8. moon, Less than half of the illuminated part moon can be seen.
10. line, A line on a rock surface or the ground that traces a geological fault.
11. Contains all of the Earth’s water.
14. Moon, You can see the entire illuminated side of the moon.
15. The layer of Earth's atmosphere that is directly above the stratosphere.