The Earth System Crossword

A group of parts that work together as a whole
The parts of the Earth that contain living organisms
The slow movement of Earth's plates
Cave explorers
Created by the Colorado River
To reduce to pieces
Destroy and wear away land masses through a process called erosion and weathering
The ability to do work
All the Earth's water
Released as waves or rays
Water evaporates from the ocean, rises into the atmosphere, and then falls from the sky as rain
A very small fragment of a much larger object
Occurs when a system returns to itself data about a change in the system
Molten materials inside the earth
All of Earth's mass of solid rocks and metals
Evidence of remains of animals found in rock
The thin envelope of gases that forms the Earth's outermost layer
Build landmasses by lifting up mountains and rock
Earth's top layer of stiff solid rock
Small particles that collect and form at the bottom of the ocean
The Earth's main system has four of these
Shape the land's surface by building up mountains and other landmasses
Layers of the Earth broken into huge pieces
Earth's outermost layer is made mostly out of this, like nitrogen and oxygen
The melting of these is caused by rising temperature
One of the most important parts of the Earth system
Earth's highest mountain
The flow of rock through the Earth system
A natural power that acts on an object
The force that makes objects fall toward Earth's center