Vocabulary Set #6: 8th Grade Integrated Science - Messana B8 Crossword

A ball of hot solid metals at the center of Earth.
A layer of liquid metals that surrounds the inner core.
Earth's thickest layer; made of hot rock that is less dense than the metallic center cores.
A thin layer of cool rock that surrounds the Earth like a shell surrounds an egg.
Earth's crust and the very of of the mantle together.
A layer of hotter, softer rock in the upper mantle; the lithosphere sits ontop of it.
Many large and small slabs of rock that make up the lithosphere.
The idea that Earth's continents originally made one landmass and gradually moved over time.
The conclusion from the continental drift that all the continents formed a giant landmass named this.
Huge underwater mountain ranges.
A motion that transfers heat energy in a material.
A gap between mid-ocean ridges that makes molten material rise to build a new crust.
Changes in Earth's magnetic field that causes a switch in direction.
Heated rocks in plumes, or thin columns from the mantle.
When one tectonic plate sinks below another.
Where the edges of two plates meet.
Where tectonic plates move apart; mainly occurs with oceanic crust.
Occurs when tectonic plates push together.
Occurs when tectonic plates slide past each other.