Geology Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- convection : where warmer parts rise and cooler parts sink
- compression : stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks
- plates : a section of lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere
- pangea : large ancient land mass that composed of all continents joined together
- plate technotics : theory of earth's lithosphere being in constant motion
- mesosphere : strong lower part of the mantle
- geology : study of the earth
- lithosphere : the rigid of outer layer of the earth that includes the crust and upper mantle
- magma : the molten mixture of rock forming substance
- plate boundary : a crack in the lithosphere where two of earth's plates meet
- outer core : a layer of molten iron and nickel surrounding inner core of earth
- mantle : the layer of hot solid material between the earth's crust and core
- intercore : a dense sphere of solid iron and nickel
- asthenosphere : upper part of the mantles where plates move
- tension : stress that stresses rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle
