plate tectonics Crossword Puzzles

20 Clues: Located between the mantle and outer core • Sudden events that led to mass extinction • Rock formed when lava or magma cools or hardens • A group of the same species living in the same area • fractures or zones of weakness in the earth's crust • formed at plate boundaries usually when plates collide • Extinction events that occur over a longer period of time • ...

10 Clues: molten rock • always moving • Has three types of it • when two plates come together • Form at divergent plate boundaries • Formed by divergent plate boundaries • When two plates slide past each other • When two plates move away from each other • Formed during convergent plate boundaries • Also forms during divergent plate boundaries

18 Clues: formed at the plate boundary • sudden events that lead to a mass extinction • located between the mantle and the outer core • rock formed when lava or magma cools and hardens • instruments used to measure and record seismic waves • A group over the same species living in the same area • Extinction events that occur over a longer time period • ...

18 Clues: formed at the plate boundary • sudden events that lead to a mass extinction • located between the mantle and the outer core • rock formed when lava or magma cools and hardens • instruments used to measure and record seismic waves • A group over the same species living in the same area • Extinction events that occur over a longer time period • ...

18 Clues: formed at the plate boundary • sudden events that lead to a mass extinction • located between the mantle and the outer core • rock formed when lava or magma cools and hardens • instruments used to measure and record seismic waves • A group over the same species living in the same area • Extinction events that occur over a longer time period • ...

13 Clues: core • core • zone • ridge • Drift • valley • Wegener • boundary • currents • boundary • boundary • spreading • of Plate Tectonics

20 Clues: Located between the mantle and outer core • Sudden events that led to mass extinction • Rock formed when lava or magma cools or hardens • A group of the same species living in the same area • fractures or zones of weakness in the earth's crust • formed at plate boundaries usually when plates collide • Extinction events that occur over a longer period of time • ...

20 Clues: Located between the mantle and outer core • Sudden events that led to mass extinction • Rock formed when lava or magma cools or hardens • A group of the same species living in the same area • fractures or zones of weakness in the earth's crust • formed at plate boundaries usually when plates collide • Extinction events that occur over a longer period of time • ...

28 Clues: stored energy • layers of rocks • A science teacher. • the energy of motion • the study of the natural world • transfer of heat by direct touch • scientist who studies earth and rocks • the factor that changes in the experiment • the average speed of an object’s molecules • any prehistoric organism preserved in rock • transfer of heat through light (no contact) • ...

24 Clues: The edge where two tectonic plates meet. • The type of fault that slides horizontally. • A break in the Earth's crust where plates move. • These form when magma escapes from Earth's mantle. • A rigid outer part of the Earth divided into plates. • process where plates move apart and create new crust. • The supercontinent that existed millions of years ago. • ...

13 Clues: / breaks in earth's crust along which rocks move • valley / a deep valley that forms where two plates move apart • ridge / an underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics • / any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in a rock • boundary / a plate boundary where two plates move toward each other • ...

18 Clues: formed at the plate boundary • sudden events that lead to a mass extinction • located between the mantle and the outer core • rock formed when lava or magma cools and hardens • instruments used to measure and record seismic waves • A group over the same species living in the same area • Extinction events that occur over a longer time period • ...

20 Clues: something that erupts • when the denser plates sink • when all continents were once joined • plate boundary when two plates collide • the cold and rigid outermost rock layer • reversal magnetic field reverses direction • drift when continents are in constant motion • the last name of the man who discovered pangea • plate boundary forms when two plates separate • ...

19 Clues: the super continent • when the rock pulls away • quake when the plates move • molten lava deep in the crust • trench at the mid ocean ridge • when the rock smashes together • the location on earths surface • ocean ridge where lava comes out • waves when rocks move up and down • a example when lava forms continents • when the rock pulls different direction • ...

23 Clues: From sun • on the earth • matter has it • from a animail • Super Continent • inside the earth • A type of currant • Another type of currant • from a hole in the earth • Land gets make over time • where earthquakes happen • the continents ride on it • What the continent ride on • Where volcanos make a island • where a lot of volcanos happen • The continents are away's moving • ...

19 Clues: Rigid • Liquid phase • Where meteors burn • Where we humans live • Coming closer together • Upper part of the earth • Contains the ozone layer • Middle and thickest layer • Where Satellites orbit Earth • Waves produced by earthquakes • Moving to different direction • The zone below the lithosphere • Rock/land, outer of earth's crust • The lithosphere being broken into • ...

21 Clues: plate in Africa • plate in Europe • plate in Australia • another word for crust • the largest tectonic plate • the solid top layer of earth • number of major tectonic plates • number of minor tectonic plates • melted rock in the asthenosphere • the lithosphere is _____into pieces • when all the continents were together • what most tectonic plates are made of • ...

9 Clues: faults • trenches • tectonics • volcanoes • continents • earthquakes • mountainranges • plateboundaries • divergentboundary

14 Clues: Is the transfer of heat • When two plates collide. • Also known as seismic wave. • The spreading of the seafloor. • Is the edge of a tectonic plate. • ________ is a series of vibrations of earth. • When two plates move sideways with each other. • A long steep sided depression in the ocean floor. • Maurice Ewing and Bruce Heezen discovered the _________. • ...

14 Clues: south america • mountain range of • shaking of ground • highest mount everest • two plates moving apart • outermost layer of earth • point of origin of earthquake • where plates slide past each other • two plates colliding with each other • found along divergent plate boundaries • the innermost geologic layer of the planet Earth • above the stratosphere and below the thermosphere • ...

14 Clues: tectonics • Two plates slide past each other in opposite directions • The point on the surface directly above the earthquake origin. • Branch of science that studies earthquakes and relate phenomena • Two or more tectonic plates are pulling apart and new crust is formed • Two or more plates come together and one plate sinks beneath the other • ...

15 Clues: The study of the Earth • A crack in Earth's crust • In the center of the Earth • The outer layer of the Earth • One plate goes under the other • The rocks and minerals on Earth • Molten rock on the Earth's crust • Plates that form a mid ocean ridge • The layer of the Earth under the crust • Often occurs at convergent plate boundaries • ...

15 Clues: The study of the Earth • A crack in Earth's crust • In the center of the Earth • The outer layer of the Earth • One plate goes under the other • The rocks and minerals on Earth • Molten rock on the Earth's crust • Plates that form a mid ocean ridge • The layer of the Earth under the crust • Often occurs at convergent plate boundaries • ...

14 Clues: crust that is thin and dense • crust that is thick and brittle • occur at transform plate boundaries • boundary where two plates move toward each other • Boundary where two tectonic plates come together • boundary where two tectonic plates slide against each other • the scientist who said the continents were once all together • ...

14 Clues: is the outermost layer • is a liquid part of the core • semi-solid layer beneath the crust • is the inner solid part of the core • Andes, the Alps, and the Rocky Mountains. • this boundary occurs where plates collide • form through the eruption of magma from the Earth's interior • when all the continents were connected creating a supercontinent • ...

14 Clues: the boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding • a break in the earth's crust; forms at transform boundary • the boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other • an area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust above it • ...

14 Clues: Second largest plate • Smallest Tectonic Plate • Has five triple junctions • One of the youngest plates • Smallest major tectonic plate • Fastest moving plate/Largest plate • It shares boundaries with multiple plates • Its mostly boarded by convergent boundaries • Its two different plates,but is counted as one • The plate is gradually moving away from Africa • ...

14 Clues: is the process of mountain formation • A supercontinent that existed about 200 million years ago. • An area on Earth where tectonic plates collide with each other • This happens when energy moves form a warmer object to a cooler object. • A soft and fluid layer found below the lithosphere where tectonic plates lie. • ...

20 Clues: Plates colliding • Plates separating • Molten rock in Earth • Plates under the ocean • Plates under the continent • Molten rock outside of Earth • Transform boundaries cause what • Forms when 2 oceanic plates collide • Forms on the edge of a tectonic plate • Where are convection currents located • Where a plate sinks under another plate • ...

15 Clues: and volcanoes. • the North American plate. • Two *BLANK* cells are moving upward and • *blank* material makes up earth's plates • boundaries with subduction make volcanoes • *BLANK* plate material is denser and thinner • *blank* boundaries move alongside each other • each other, resulting in the formation of the • *Blank* plate material is less dense and thicker • ...

14 Clues: towards each other • away from each other • slide past each other • cracks on earth's crust • we have seven major ones • occurs at mid ocean ridges • a break in the earth's crust • denser than continental crust • violent shaking of the ground • a super continent in the past • ridgid outer part of the earth • long chains of active volcanoes • narrow depressions on the seafloor. • ...

14 Clues: hot rises, cold sinks • discovered continental drift • one plate sinking under another • two plates sliding by each other • two plates moving toward each other • two plates moving away from each other • divergent boundary on continental plates • formed when two continental plates collide • deep part of the ocean at a subduction zone • ...

14 Clues: red hot lava • earth shaking • inner and outer • faster than s waves • slower than p waves • below the lithosphere • being stretched tight • between crust and core • above the asthenosphere • machine measuring shaking • record produced by seismograph • bits of Earth's crust and mantle • hypothesis Earth's continents moved • 2 lithospheric plates combine;overlap

14 Clues: A fracture in the rock where movement has occurred. • Plates that are made of thin, young, and dense crust. • Plates that are made of thick, old, and buoyant crust. • The hot substance the resides under the earth's crust. • The scientist who proposed the idea of Continental Drift. • The parts of the lithosphere that are continuously moving. • ...

14 Clues: Huge plates • Violent shaking of Earth • 2 tectonic plates colliding • Pangaea becomes the 7 continents • Runs along the Mid Atlantic Ridge • Plates moving away from each other • Massive waves caused by earthquakes • The deepest feature below the seafloor • Transfer of heat from one place to another • The formation of new areas of oceanic crust • ...

14 Clues: High energy wave • A large chunk of Earth's crust • Location where tectonic plates meet • deep rift valley formed by the divergent boundary • Region where 2(or more)tectonic plates move apart • Theory that Earth's crust is divided into 12 large plates • Zone in Earth's crust along which rocks slide past each other • ...

14 Clues: Is the transfer of heat • When two plates collide. • Also known as seismic wave. • The spreading of the seafloor. • Is the edge of a tectonic plate. • ________ is a series of vibrations of earth. • When two plates move sideways with each other. • A long steep sided depression in the ocean floor. • Maurice Ewing and Bruce Heezen discovered the _________. • ...

14 Clues: developed in the 1960's • also a divergent boundary • known as lateral slipping plate movement • sudden and violent shaking of the ground • example of divergent but just where it's located • deep rift valley formed by the divergent boundary • the movement of two oceanic plates away from each other • parts of the Earth's crust slowly drift atop a liquid core • ...

14 Clues: hemispheric-scale long but narrow topographic depressions of the seafloor. • a scientific theory that describes the large-scale motion of earth's lithosphere. • pieces of the earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred as the lithosphere. • the result of a sudden release of energy in the earth's crust that creates seismic waves. • ...

15 Clues: big wave • when the earth rumbles • another word for oceans • ocean but three letters • largest layer of the earth • the outermost shell of a planet • when one plate goes under another • the upper layer of the earth's mantle • very hot, very dense center of our planet • type plates that are located beneath the ocean • ...

14 Clues: A deep canyon on the ocean floor • A deep valley where two plates move apart • The layer of rock that forms the Earth's outer surface • dense ball of solid material at the center of the earth • A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other • A soft layer of the mantle on which floats the lithosphere • ...

14 Clues: the bending of rocks • boundaries plate boundaries where two plates • boundaries where two plates side past each other • all Earth's mass that was said to be a supercontinent • caused by two tectonic plates sliding past each other • together, causing one of the plates to sink into the mantle • ...

14 Clues: to • hess • belts • zones • plate • fault • minerals • lithosphere • tuzo wilson • holmes / thought of using • wegener / he couldn't explain mechanism • / two tectonic plates moving towards each other • / two tectonic plates moving away from each other • / when two tectonic plates slide against each other

15 Clues: a huge wave. • tall and ponity . • crust lithasphere. • a subject in school. • something that erupts. • something that moves apart. • a plate that causes friction. • something that is really hot. • to compare distence on a globe. • plates make up the earths surface . • when tectonic plates hit each other. • something you track earthquakes with. • ...

24 Clues: Greek word for "all lands" • Boundary at which two plates move apart • A pulling force applied to rock layers. • The bending of rock layers due to stress • Boundary Region where two plates interact • Boundary at which two plates come together • Boundary at which two plates slide past each other • Stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks. • ...

10 Clues: what is pangea • what is magma made of • 2 plates moving apart • 2 plates crashing together • what do all boundries create • 2 plates sliding past each other • what people research plate tectonics • who created the plate tectonic theory • an ocean plate going under a land plate • how many types of convergent boundary are there

41 Clues: submarine mountain chain • Deepest part of the oceans • Layer beneath the Earth's crust • Name of the most recent supercontinent • Theory first proposed by Alfred Wegener • Formed by submarine eruptions of basalt • Formed by the collision of India and Eurasia • Type of force acting at a divergent plate margin • Type of force acting at a convergent plate margin • ...

24 Clues: mass/volume • _____ tectonics • strike slip _____ • underground melted rock • a pocket of magma in a plate • mountain that erupts out magma • a casing of an ancient organism • magma that has reached the surface • two plates moving towards each other • two plates moving away from each other • the transfer of heat through empty space • the movement of liquid that conducts heat • ...

14 Clues: when two tectonic plates collide • the deepest parts of the ocean floor • location where two tectonic plates meet • a process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges • a sudden and violent shaking of the ground • when two tectonic plates slide past one another • theory explaining the movement of the Earth's plates • the movement of two oceanic plates away from each other • ...

14 Clues: Where plates meet • Found under Africa • Plate move very.... • Found under the crust • Found under the oceans • happens when plates move • Plates never join on .... • Caused when plates collide • Used to measure earthquakes • Caused when plates move apart • a scale to measure earthquakes • A big wave caused by an earthquake • Tectonic plates are found on the earths... • ...

14 Clues: The deepest parts of the oceans. • Section of the Earth below the crust. • The Theory of Continental _____________. • Places where the new seafloor is being created. • The most outer solid portion of the planet Earth. • results when a divergent boundary occurs under the sea. • Scientist who first proposed the theory that the continents drifted. • ...

14 Clues: the ring of fire encircles this plate • the hottest part of the Earth's interior • the name of the zone after the outer core • these are often found along a subduction zone • the name of a famous fault line in North America • was formed as a result of two plates moving apart • these currents drive the plates on the lithosphere • ...

14 Clues: The outermost layer of Earth • Plate that makes up the seafloor • Plate that makes up the continents • The process that creates new seafloor • A feature formed at a subduction zone • The revised version of Wegner's theory • A type of boundary commonly associated with faults • The type of boundary responsible for seafloor spreading • ...

15 Clues: What boundary forms faults • Rock made by heat and pressure • What is a large plate by the inner core and • Where is the most innermost place in the Earth • what boundary occurs when plates move at each other • where is the place that stores a large amount of magma • When two plates push apart, what is that process called. • ...

14 Clues: more dense things • less dense things • where 2 plates slide • where 2 plates collide • where 2 plates separate • hottest layer of the earth • the thinnest layer of the earth • made up of crust and upper mantle • layer of the earth below the mantle • what happens at a transform boundary • what is created at a convergent boundary • ______ and nickel make up the core of the earth • ...

15 Clues: motion of plates over time • crust that is the most dense • form from a ocean-ocean collision • large supercontinent that once existed • type of boundary where mountains occur • layer of Earth that makes up the plates • likely to occur at a transform boundary • zone that occurs at a convergent boundary • current inside Earth that moves the plates • ...

15 Clues: The study of the Earth • A crack in Earth's crust • In the center of the Earth • The outer layer of the Earth • One plate goes under the other • The rocks and minerals on Earth • Molten rock on the Earth's crust • Plates that form a mid ocean ridge • The layer of the Earth under the crust • Often occurs at convergent plate boundaries • ...

15 Clues: The study of the Earth • A crack in Earth's crust • In the center of the Earth • The outer layer of the Earth • One plate goes under the other • The rocks and minerals on Earth • Molten rock on the Earth's crust • Plates that form a mid ocean ridge • The layer of the Earth under the crust • Often occurs at convergent plate boundaries • ...

14 Clues: Planar Fracture • A super continent • Where two plates meet • Area of common earthquakes • There are 7 of these around the world • the frequency, kind, and magnitude of earthquakes experienced during a given period. • a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance. • ...

14 Clues: is the outermost layer • is a liquid part of the core • semi-solid layer beneath the crust • is the inner solid part of the core • Andes, the Alps, and the Rocky Mountains. • this boundary occurs where plates collide • form through the eruption of magma from the Earth's interior • when all the continents were connected creating a supercontinent • ...

41 Clues: submarine mountain chain • Deepest part of the oceans • Layer beneath the Earth's crust • Name of the most recent supercontinent • Formed by submarine eruptions of basalt • Theory first proposed by Alfred Wegener • Formed by the collision of India and Eurasia • Type of force acting at a divergent plate margin • Type of force acting at a convergent plate margin • ...

15 Clues: Where plate tectonics form • A crack in earth's lithosphere. • A layer of the matel where plates move on top of. • The boundary between two plates moving away from each other. • In this layer of earth plate tectonics form in the lithosphere. • When two plates rub against each other in different directions. • ...

15 Clues: a huge wave. • tall and ponity . • crust lithasphere. • a subject in school. • something that erupts. • something that moves apart. • a plate that causes friction. • something that is really hot. • to compare distence on a globe. • plates make up the earths surface . • when tectonic plates hit each other. • something you track earthquakes with. • ...

15 Clues: big wave • when the earth rumbles • another word for oceans • ocean but three letters • largest layer of the earth • the outermost shell of a planet • when one plate goes under another • the upper layer of the earth's mantle • very hot, very dense center of our planet • type plates that are located beneath the ocean • ...

15 Clues: big wave • when the earth rumbles • another word for oceans • ocean but three letters • largest layer of the earth • the outermost shell of a planet • when one plate goes under another • the upper layer of the earth's mantle • very hot, very dense center of our planet • type plates that are located beneath the ocean • ...

14 Clues: plates colliding with each other • the crust that forms the continents • plates moving apart from each other • The movement of lava in the aesthenosphere • A layer of 'plastic' semi-solid rock in the lower mantle • Crust and uppermost solid mantle, sits on aesthenosphere • Scientists that developed the theory of continental drift • ...

14 Clues: crust, this crust is less dense • crust, this crust is more dense • boundary, where plates move together • boundary, where plates slip past each other • an idea that can be tested by experimentation • ridge, long zipper like chains of undersea mountains • the sinking movement of ocean floor back into the mantle • ...

15 Clues: The study of the Earth • A crack in Earth's crust • In the center of the Earth • The outer layer of the Earth • One plate goes under the other • The rocks and minerals on Earth • Molten rock on the Earth's crust • Plates that form a mid ocean ridge • The layer of the Earth under the crust • Often occurs at convergent plate boundaries • ...

14 Clues: layer within the mantle • A plastic but solid material • The innermost part of the Earth • How many layers of Earth are there? • The solid portion on which we stand on • These travel at about 6-7 km per second • These waves are picked up by seismographs • the crust and the upper portion of the mantle • Ocean The largest belt is located where? • ...

14 Clues: the crust is divide • forcing one under the other • plates move past each other • seven or eight major plates • violent shaking of the ground • transfer of heat by circulation • deepest parts of the ocean floor • divergent, convergent, transform • running along the Mid Atlantic Ridge • two plates are moving away from each other • ...

14 Clues: Huge plates • Violent shaking of Earth • 2 tectonic plates colliding • Pangaea becomes the 7 continents • Runs along the Mid Atlantic Ridge • Plates moving away from each other • Massive waves caused by earthquakes • The deepest feature below the seafloor • Transfer of heat from one place to another • The formation of new areas of oceanic crust • ...

14 Clues: Huge plates • Violent shaking of Earth • 2 tectonic plates colliding • Pangaea becomes the 7 continents • Runs along the Mid Atlantic Ridge • Plates moving away from each other • Massive waves caused by earthquakes • The deepest feature below the seafloor • Transfer of heat from one place to another • The formation of new areas of oceanic crust • ...

14 Clues: Huge plates • Violent shaking of Earth • 2 tectonic plates colliding • Pangaea becomes the 7 continents • Runs along the Mid Atlantic Ridge • Plates moving away from each other • Massive waves caused by earthquakes • The deepest feature below the seafloor • Transfer of heat from one place to another • The formation of new areas of oceanic crust • ...

20 Clues: to break off • movement of a fluid • mountain range underwater • When two plates move apart • cracks in the earth's crust • plates grind past each other • plates move toward each other • occurs when two plates collide • plates move away from each other • a plate diving under another plate • A deep canyon in the oceanic floor • oceanic crust is created underwater • ...

17 Clues: come together • Shears past one another • outermost level of earth • remains of an dead animal • separates from one another • Continent that has 7 pieces • rock formation being broken • solid layer in upper mantle • theory that crust is divided • continents were once together • outermost shell of a terrestrial • earth's mantle creates new crust • when a denser plate is pushed down • ...

14 Clues: High energy wave • A large chunk of Earth's crust • Location where tectonic plates meet • deep rift valley formed by the divergent boundary • Region where 2(or more)tectonic plates move apart • Theory that Earth's crust is divided into 12 large plates • Zone in Earth's crust along which rocks slide past each other • ...

14 Clues: an underwater chain of mountains. • when one tectonic plates dives under another • the process by which Earth's crust breaks apart • the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago • created by two pieces of continental crust converging • creates midocean ridges, earthquakes, and volcanic activity • boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other • ...

14 Clues: a very deep hole • moving side by side • moving towards each other • crust that forms the land • moving away from each other • an underwater mountain range • the place where two plates meet • crust that forms the ocean floor • hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth • hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth • pieces of the crust and the upper part of the mantle • ...

15 Clues: Rocks turn into sediments through _________ • ___ Igneous rock is cooled below the Earth's surface • ___ Igneous rock is cooled below the Earth's surface • Sediments turn into sedimentary rock through _________ • Igneous rock turn into magma through ___ in the Earth's mantle • Plates moving/spreading can cause a variety of ___ and boundaries • ...

14 Clues: The centre of the Earth • The movement of the continents over time • Semiliquid rock found beneath the Earth's surface • The word for when two tectonic plates are moving apart • A fracture in rock where the tectonic plates have moved • The word for when two tectonic plates are moving together • The outer layer of the Earth (also called the lithosphere) • ...

14 Clues: hot molten rocks below the earth's surface • plates slide past each other at this boundary • landforms can be found at divergent plate boundaries • zone where denser plate subducts under a less dense plate • this phenomenon can occur at all types of plate boundaries • This plate collides with Indian plate to form form mountain • ...

15 Clues: What causes plates to move? • How many layers does the Earth have? • What happens at transform boundaries? • Do earthquakes or volcanoes occur more? • How many major plates make up the Earth? • How can metamorphic rock turn into magma? • What happens at convergent plate boundaries? • What turns sedimentary rock into metamorphic? • ...

14 Clues: big wave created by earthquake • A big crack in the Lithosphere • the theory that continents move • gigantic chunks of the Lithosphere • Molten rock that is inside the earth • mostly solid bulk of earth's interior • a boundary where plates are pushed apart • small earthquakes that occur after big ones • the innermost layer of the earth's interior • ...

14 Clues: Working; in action • unlikely to erupt again • Liquid magma that reaches the surface • by a vast and diverse array of evidence • An idea that has been studied and investigated and is • Term used to describe a volcano that is no longer active • A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other • A weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface • ...

15 Clues: The study of the Earth • A crack in Earth's crust • In the center of the Earth • The outer layer of the Earth • One plate goes under the other • The rocks and minerals on Earth • Molten rock on the Earth's crust • Plates that form a mid ocean ridge • The layer of the Earth under the crust • Often occurs at convergent plate boundaries • ...

20 Clues: a huge super continent • a metal mined for a profit • a rare and attractive mineral • forms where tow plates collide • forms where two plates separate • a suggestion that continents move • This process forms new oceanic crust • the magnetic field reverses direction • The resistance of what being scratched • forms where two plates slide past each other • ...

21 Clues: Forms from erosion • Weakness in the crust • Upper region of earth • Drives plate tectonics • Rock formed by cooling • Ancient supercontinent • Pieces of moving earth • Rock formed by pressure • Depressions in the ocean • A slow, catastrophic event • The center region of earth • Records funny little waves • Formed at plate boundaries • A quick, catastrophic event • ...

16 Clues: to pull apart • plates forming a continent • rigid outer part of the earth • upper layer of the earth's mantle • plates dramatic change in the form • boundaries where lithosphere collides • fault boundaries strike-slip boundary • plates covering most of North America • American plates a major tectonic plate • downward movement of the edge of a plate • ...

11 Clues: Earth's middle layer • Earth's innermost layer • The study of Earth's physical structure • It is able to carry an electric current • The rising and falling of a temperature • The area where tectonic plates move past each other • The gigantic slabs that make up Earth's outer layer • The study of massive moving pieces in the Earth's crust • ...

17 Clues: moving apart • polar pressure • moving together • bottom of cloud • dust pollen etc. • causes the seasons • equatorial pressure • bring cold air down • an occluded overtaker • this field of study "rocks" • occur along plate boundaries • when air reaches its dew point • center of air mass/Mr. Penberthy's marriage • hemisphere coriolis to the left to the left • ...

11 Clues: Earth's middle layer • Earth's innermost layer • The study of Earth's physical structure • It is able to carry an electric current • The rising and falling of a temperature • The area where tectonic plates move past each other • The gigantic slabs that make up Earth's outer layer • The study of massive moving pieces in the Earth's crust • ...

9 Clues: moves lithosphere • denser plates sinks • rigid slabs that move • forms where two separate • cold outermost rock layer • forms where two plates slide • forms where two plates collide • pulls rest on slab as it pulls • temperature difference causes material circ

16 Clues: The top layer of the earth. • The solid middle of the earth. • Rocks made from cooling magma. • Shaking on the earth's surface. • Hot liquid rock under the earth's surface. • Where two plates meet is called a plate _______. • When one plate is pulled underneath another plate. • The process that breaks rocks down into smaller pieces. • ...

16 Clues: plates the move • the layer under the crust • one of the tectonic plates • a plate that is really cold • the first layer of the earth • the number of tectonic plates • a plate that has very dry land • the layer under the outtercore • a eruption that shoots out magma • the upper layer of earths mantle • drift the movement of continents • the rigid outer part of the earth • ...

10 Clues: Molten rock • Moves the plates • Harry Hass's idea • Pulling apart boundary • Moving together boundary • Formed in a subduction zone • Valleys formed during a divergent boundary • A boundary that is sliding past one another • Oceanic plate sliding under a continental plate • Originally came up with the idea of plate tectonics

10 Clues: Molten rock • Moves the plates • Harry Hass's idea • Pulling apart boundary • Moving together boundary • Formed in a subduction zone • Valleys formed during a divergent boundary • A boundary that is sliding past one another • Oceanic plate sliding under a continental plate • Originally came up with the idea of plate tectonics

11 Clues: Earth's middle layer • Earth's innermost layer • The study of Earth's physical structure • It is able to carry an electric current • The rising and falling of a temperature • The area where tectonic plates move past each other • The gigantic slabs that make up Earth's outer layer • The study of massive moving pieces in the Earth's crust • ...

20 Clues: the place where 2 plates meet • evidence of life from the past • a sudden shaking of Earth's crust • hot liquid rock on Earth’s surface • the sudden pushing out of something • how often of fast something happens • the outside or top layer of something • hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth • when 2 plates are moving towards each other • ...

20 Clues: the place where 2 plates meet • evidence of life from the past • a sudden shaking of Earth's crust • hot liquid rock on Earth’s surface • the sudden pushing out of something • how often of fast something happens • the outside or top layer of something • hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth • when 2 plates are moving towards each other • ...

11 Clues: Earth's middle layer • Earth's innermost layer • The study of Earth's physical structure • It is able to carry an electric current • The rising and falling of a temperature • The area where tectonic plates move past each other • The gigantic slabs that make up Earth's outer layer • The study of massive moving pieces in the Earth's crust • ...