Earth's Interior Crossword Puzzle

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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.

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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.