Earth

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. A person who is as brilliant and precious as a piece of jewelry (plural) (4)
  2. 5. A slide of a large mass of dirt and rock down a mountain or cliff (plural) (10)
  3. 6. Dish on which food is served or from which food is eaten (plural) (6)
  4. 8. A hypothetical continent including all the landmass of the earth prior to the Triassic period when (6)
  5. 9. Mountain that erupts with lava (plural) (9)
  6. 11. The branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust (14)
  7. 12. A cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption (7)

Down

  1. 1. A slowly moving mass of ice (plural) (8)
  2. 2. The breakdown or alteration of rock at or near the surface of the Earth. (10)
  3. 3. Someone unpleasantly strange or eccentric (5)
  4. 4. Sudden shakings of the ground caused by movement within the Earth. (11)
  5. 7. The natural process of laying down a ___ of something (10)
  6. 10. The remains of a plant or animal that existed in a past geological age and that has been excavated (plural) (7)