Across |
6. | Type of fossil created by sap. |
9. | A break in the Earth's crust where rocks move passed each other |
11. | Type of geological dating that uses the layers of rock. |
12. | hard rocky layer on the outside of the earth. The one we walk on. |
13. | Type of plate boundary where two plates move towards and smash into each other. |
15. | Phase in earth development where the earth was hammered by impacts. from 4.6 to about 4.1 bya. |
20. | This forms when two continental plates collide. Thrust faulting and showing a crunch zone. (2 Words) |
24. | Type of stress found at a divergent boundary. |
25. | type of rock nearly all fossils are formed in. |
26. | Relative Dating law that states that if a layer cuts across another layer. the Layer being cut is older than the layer doing the cutting. |
27. | Weak putty like portion of the mantle that is right under the crust. |
28. | Lifeform that is said to have produced the majority of the oxygen in our atmosphere. |
30. | Type of fault created by a divergent boundary. Rock drops down. |
31. | The time it takes for HALF of the radioactive sample to decay and become not radioactive. |
32. | Type of fossil that results from freezing, mummification of the actual organism. (2 Words) |
33. | Name for a chunk of crust floating on the mantle. |
35. | Once the protostar starts fusing atoms together. Officially is one of these. |
37. | Type of fossil where the original body of the organism has been replaced by minerals and crystals. |
38. | These in the mantle move the plates as the hot magma rises and moves colder magma away. (2 Words) |
42. | Large cloud of gas floating in space that could form a star. |
43. | Type of stress at a convergent boundary. |
45. | thickest layer of the Earth. Made of magma |
47. | Cenozoic, Mesozoic, and Paleozoic are examples of ________ in the geologic time scale. |
48. | name for where two plates meet. (2 Words) |
49. | Type of plate boundary where the two plates are moving away from each other. |
50. | Volcanoes are created on the continental crust next to the collision site next to these. (2 Words) |
51. | What ended snowball/slushball Earth? (2 Words) |
52. | any preserved evidence of a living organism. |