Earth's Interior Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• asthenosphere : made of hot flowing rock
• lithosphere : uppermost mantle and contains the crust
• upper mantle : holds the lithosphere and the asthenosphere
• lower mantle : the thickest layer
• destiny : as the layers go down, the _ increases
• oceanic crust : underneath the crust
• continental : _ crust forms all continents
• fossil : a preserved remain in an organism
• tectonic plates : how earth's crust is broken
• crust : the layer of rock that forms earth's outer surface.
• pressure : the force pushing on a surface divided by the area of that surface.
• geosphere : the densest parts of the earth that include the crust, mantle, and core.
• mantle : the layer of hot, solid material between earth's crust and core.
• inner core : a dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of the earth.
• outer core : a layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of earth.
• density : the rate of the mass of a substance to its volume(mass divided by volume).
• continental drift : the hypothesis that the continents slowly move across earth's surface.
• pangaea : the name of a single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents.
• plate : a section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust.
• divergent : _ boundary - a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
• convergent : _ boundary - a plate boundary where two plates move towards each other.
• transform : _ boundary - a plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions.