plate tectonics Crossword Puzzles

8 Clues: a vast dry piece of land • a large flowing body of water • large areas of almost flat land • tectonics Theory about the Earth's crust movement • large abrupt elevation of the surface of the earth • a hill or mountain with a vent to the Earth's crust • a chain of islands clustered together in a sea or ocean • a large flat area of land which is higher than its surrounds

8 Clues: is a fundamental concept in plate tectonics. • has changed significantly over geological time. • was a pioneer in the study of drifting continents. • involves the movement and formation of large landmasses. • Alfred Wegener's groundbreaking work introduced the idea of • on ancient landmasses provide clues about continental movement. • ...

18 Clues: Top of a volcano • Former Supercontinent • Underwater earthquake • Reason why plates move • Strength of an earthquake • Movement of the continents • Place where two plates meet • Place where magma is stored • Tremors sent out from the Focus • Plate boundary where volcanoes are formed • Type of plate boundary where Earthquakes happen • ...

18 Clues: Melted rock below ground • Melted rock above ground • when to plates pull apart • when two plates push together • Pieces of broken rock cemented • formed by a transform boundary • Small pieces of rock broken down • Formed from cooling magma or lava • The current below the Earth's crust • how the Hawaiian islands were formed • when two plates slide past each other • ...

23 Clues: Crust is the outermost layer • When you think really hard about something • It's an ideal of something and a guess about it • a current in a fluid that turns into a convection. • The mesosphere is the third layer of the atmosphere, • material that returns to its original shape after being deformed • ...

15 Clues: The capital of Nepal • A deep open crack on a glacier. • The largest mountain in the world. • The Nepalese name for Mount Everest. • The country is Mount Everest located. • The continent that is Nepal is located in • The name given to the top of the mountain • The first explorer to climb Mount Everest. • The name of Edmund Hillary's sherpa guide. • ...

15 Clues: When two plates collide • When two plates separate • The layer under the mantle • The thin layer above the mantle • Is a plastic layer of the mantle • The outermost, rigid layer of earth • Is the strong lower part of the mantle • The layer between the crust and the core • Boundary, When two plates slide past each other • ...

15 Clues: Layer where weather occurs. • The largest type of severe storm. • Air masses originating over land. • _________ cells drive plate tectonics. • This gas makes up ~21% of the Atmosphere. • Solar radiation that reaches a given area. • Energy reradiated back out from the Earth. • This type of wave is also known as an S wave. • Weather instrument that measures air pressure. • ...

15 Clues: a proposed mechanism for plate motion in plate tectonics. • instrument used for measuring magnetic forces, especially the earth's magnetism. • line on a diagram or map connecting points relating to the same time or equal times. • the portion of motion of a tectonic plate that can be accounted for by its subduction. • ...

19 Clues: formed by divergent • plate located in africa • plate Located in Eurasia • formed by Transformation • When 2 plates move apart. • plate located in antarctica • Formed by Convergent collision • plate located in North America • plate located in South America • the very top layer of the earth • plate Located in indo-australia • formed by Convergent Subduction • ...

5 Clues: Boundary Divergent Boundary Plate Tectonics Transform Boundary • Crust Lithosphere Asthenosphere Mesosphere • Isotope Daughter Isotope Geoneutrino Radiometric Dating • ...

6 Clues: - the planet on which we live; the world. • -the action or process of moving or being moved. • - the physical universe beyond the earth's atmosphere. • -a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained. • ...

7 Clues: hot melted rock • The point at which one tectonic plate touches another • a theory explaining the structure of the earths crust • The boundary between two plates that is moving together • the boundary between two plates that is moving together • The process of one tectonic plate being pushed under another tectonic plate • ...

6 Clues: Slides past • Molten Rock • Pulled apart • Pushed together • Three different types • Broken parts of Earth's outer shell

6 Clues: Earth’s plates meet at plate __________. • Breaks in the crust called __________ form where plates meet. • Plates fit together like a ________ to form the surface layer of the Earth. • Part of Earth’s crust that are irregularly shaped and moving are called the... • The result of plates moving are earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and creation of _____________. • ...

7 Clues: It is molten rock • It creates volcanoes • It creates mountains • It creates Earthquake • It creates new seafloor • It is a type of a valley • It is in the mantle and causes plates to move

6 Clues: The land that drifts • outer layer of Earth • When a volcano explodes • When plates move away from each other • This explodes when two plates are pushed together • 'Super-continent'- includes almost all of Earths land

6 Clues: molten rock below the earths surface. • the crust that forms the ocean floor. • where the crust is sinking down into the earth. • molten rock that has erupted onto the earths surface. • a layer of plastic semi-soled rock in the lower mantle. • the process of continents breaking up, subsideing and allowing in the sea.

6 Clues: Valleys • Convergent • Range Divergent • Boundary that collides • Boundary that is apart • Boundary that slide past

6 Clues: Valleys • Convergent • Range Divergent • Boundary that collides • Boundary that is apart • Boundary that slide past

6 Clues: destroy crust • creates crust • from on the continent • Where two tectonic plates meet • neither creates or destroy crust • from at the place when the plats Collab

6 Clues: plates • boundray where • happens in the mantle • ocean and land plates hit eachother • where two plates go toward eachother • where two boundrays glide past eachother

6 Clues: Is? What? • Plate boundary where two plates collide • Plate boundary where two plates slip past each other • Plate Boundary where two plates move in opposite directions • A process where one plate slips under another at a convergent boundary • ...

15 Clues: Large landmasses on Earth's surface. • The layer of gases surrounding Earth. • Preserved remains of ancient organisms. • Large masses of ice that slowly move over land. • Solid, naturally occurring aggregates of minerals. • Sudden shaking or trembling of the Earth's surface. • Rock Rock formed from accumulated layers of sediment. • ...

15 Clues: a proposed mechanism for plate motion in plate tectonics. • the movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other. • is a fault zone where two plates slide past each other horizontally. • was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. • ...

18 Clues: the layer of rock that forms earth's outer surface • supercontinent that existed over 225 million years ago • scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift • type of boundary where two plates slide past each other • surface that forms when one plate subducts under another • type of boundary where two plates move towards each other • ...

18 Clues: – A fracture or edge that separates two tectonic plates • – A rising column of hot, plastic rock within the mantle • – The process by which a continent is pulled apart at a divergent boundary • – A magnetic orientation the same as that of Earth’s current magnetic field • – A plate boundary where two tectonic plates move toward each other and collide • ...

18 Clues: the movement of heat by flowing substances. • any episode of mountain building in Earth’s past. • a boundary between two plates that are moving apart. • a boundary between two plates that are coming together. • the solid layer within the core made of iron and nickel. • core the liquid layer within the core made of iron and nickel. • ...

6 Clues: this forms a • divides apart • hot molten rock • scrapes together • collides together • plates drive back into mantle

6 Clues: Valleys • Convergent • Range Divergent • Boundary that is apart • Boundary that collides • Boundary that slide past

6 Clues: When two plates slide • When two plates divide • When two plates collide • The theory that all 7 continents were combined. • spreading When new oceanic crust forms and when magma rises up • drift The theory that all the continents were connected and then started to drift away from each other

8 Clues: plates slide past each other • boundary 2 plates collide with each other • crust thin crust that is under the ocean • boundary where 2 plates slide past each other • crust thick crust that forms large landmasses • boundary when one plate slides under another one • boundary where 2 plates move away from each other • ...

7 Clues: s the act of emitting radiation spontaneously • he movement of the plates that make up Earth's crust • or extending in different directions from a common point • the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. • the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. • fluid layer about 2,260 km (1,400 mi) thick, composed of mostly iron and nickel • ...

6 Clues: Collide with each other • Separate from each other • way in which heat travels • divergent,convergent,transform are what? • two tectonic plates slide past one another • a deep and narrow hole,or ditch,in the ground

6 Clues: a boundary that divides • the boundary that rubs together • what happens at the transform boundary • what scale were earthquakes measured on • a plate boundary where they come together • what type of valley do divergent boundaries make

6 Clues: A molten rock • 2 plates that come together • It occurs in Divergent Boundaries • 2 plates that slide past each other • 2 plates that go opposite directions • Magma that goes back into the mantle at Convergent Boundaries

6 Clues: Super continent • Came up with continental drift • The theory of continents moving • Movements of material in the Asthenosphere • Came up with the theory of Sea Floor Spreading • The idea that continents are split up between different pieces of rock

9 Clues: makes up seafloor • more pressure, hotter • solid,outer part of earth • gives a platform to all land on earth • contains about 10% of the total magnetic field energy • makes up the planets continents and continental shelves • provides thermal and mechanical driving forces for plate tectonics • ...

15 Clues: 97% of earth's water • The movement of earths materials • The earth system sphere with air • The earth system sphere with water • The earth system sphere with rocks • The type of weathering caused by wind • The earth system sphere you belong in • The breaking down of earths materials • The type of weathering caused by gophers • The type of weathering caused by acid rain • ...

5 Clues: movement of plate tectonics • voters need one of this to vote • India lies in the ____ hemisphere • trees are closely packed togeather • blows from the land to sea at night

15 Clues: a long; narrow ditch • pressure or tension exerted on a material object • (of a rock formation) be broken by a fault or faults • range a line of mountains connected by high ground • current a current in a fluid that results from convection • ...

5 Clues: Boundary Divergent Boundary Plate Tectonics Transform Boundary • Crust Lithosphere Asthenosphere Mesosphere • Isotope Daughter Isotope Geoneutrino Radiometric Dating • ...

18 Clues: the movement of heat by flowing substances. • any episode of mountain building in Earth’s past. • a boundary between two plates that are moving apart. • a boundary between two plates that are coming together. • the solid layer within the core made of iron and nickel. • core the liquid layer within the core made of iron and nickel. • ...

19 Clues: Two plates collide • The outermost solid layer of Earth • Two plates move away from each other • Two plates move past each other horizontally • The lithosphere is divided up into these pieces • Continents that joined in a single large landmass • The process that explains the age and magnetic patterns of sea-floor rocks • ...

18 Clues: the name of the currents that spreads the sea floor • earthquakes ar distributed not randomly but along... • deep long depression located down the middle of the ridge • the oceanic lithosphere is ________ than continental lithosphere • horizontal plain/gentle slope extends out from the continental slope • ...

18 Clues: Causes plates to move apart. • The air that surrounds Earth. • All the living things on Earth. • When two plates meet or ________. • When one plate might slide under another. • Earth's water, both in the ocean and on the land. • Sections of the plate can get folded and ________. • The solid rocky surface and the interior of the planet. • ...

18 Clues: Deep canyon on the ocean floor • Valley Deep valley where two plates move apart • Layer of rock that forms the Earth's outer surface • Plate boundary where two plates move toward each other • Dense ball of solid material at the center of the Earth • Soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats • Plate boundary where two plates move away from each other • ...

18 Clues: deep valleys in the seafloor • molten rock inside the Earth • At a _______ boundary, two plates are moving apart. • deep valleys running through the center of mid-ocean ridges • At a colliding or _______ boundary, two plates push together. • an elevated area caused by hot magma pushing up at a divergent boundary • ...

18 Clues: A long, narrow hole in the ground • How much of a quantity of something • The spots inside Earth's crust where an earthquake forms. • This happens when two tectonic plates separate from one another • Used to document the movement of the earth during an earthquake. • A rupture or a zone of sudden movements between two blocks of rock. • ...

18 Clues: the layer of rock that forms earths outer core • A deep valley that forms where 2 plates move apart • a plate boundary where 2 plates move towards eachother • a rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle • a plate boundary where two plates move away from eachother • an undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced • ...

12 Clues: rock formed from solidification of lava or magma • the weakening of rock by plants, animals and microbes. • rock that has undergone transformation by heat and pressure. • rock that has formed from sediment deposited by water or air. • plates witch float on and travel independently over the earths mantle. • ...

14 Clues: Movement caused by gravity • The crust at the bottom of a sea or ocean • The spontaneous emission of radiation by an unstable nucleus • The first wave from an earthquake that is recorded by a seismograph • Heat transfer from one place to another through the movement of fluids • ...

16 Clues: the study of life • a personal point of view • a signal to which an organism responds • the term for a species that has died out • an explanation of a wide range of phenomena • inventor of the binomial nomenclature system • the molecule that contains the codes for life • tells you what happens in a scientific observation • ...

21 Clues: A long narrow ditch • The process of water • Water comes from plants • Water gets into the soil • Hail, sleet, snow, and rain • Differences in water density • Water gets collected together • Found at the top of a flat map • Found at the bottom of a flat map • Water transforms into Water vapor • Underwater mountains that rise up • Water vapor transforms into clouds • ...

20 Clues: Limited in oceans. • Nitrogen ___ in oceans • Water goes to the sky. • Rain fall to the ground. • Water in the sky forms into clouds. • What eats plants for nitrogen source. • Element that is in each of the cycles • Activities performed by living organisms • Plants use this to make sugar and oxygen. • Effect on atmosphere caused by too much CO2. • ...

36 Clues: a curve in a river • the name of the supercontinent • the reaction that fuels the sun • 97% of earth's water is found here • the living factors within an ecosystem • the process of rocks being broken down • the process of rocks being carried away • heat currents that fuel plate tectonics • rocks that are created from cooling lava • plate boundaries that slide past each other • ...

26 Clues: The uneven breakage of a mineral • Magma that reaches Earth's surface • The color of a mineral in powdered form • The way a mineral reflects light from its surface • A rock formed by the crystallization of molten magma • A fracture in Earth along which movement has occurred • Loose particles created by weathering and erosion of rock • ...

12 Clues: rock formed from solidification of lave or magma. • the weakening of rocks by plants, animals and microbes. • rock that has undergone transformation by heat and pressure • rock that has formed from sediment deposited by water or air. • plates which float on and travel independently over the earth's mantle. • ...

20 Clues: an upcurved fold • a downcurved fold • a gently dipped bend • Plate _________________ • boundary where 2 plates move apart • bending of te rock without breaking • type of stress that pulls rocks apart • who proposed theory of continental drift • boundary where 2 plates collide together • fault where 2 rocks move past each other • type of stress that pushes rocks together • ...

29 Clues: a floating rock • known as firerock • flow from a volcano • scratches in bedrock • slow moving mass of ice • person who studies rocks • glaciers in the mountains • oldest landform in Canada • term meaning one land mass • province with dinosaur bones • volcanologist married couple • person who studies volcanoes • rock used to make pool tables • the oldest mountains in Canada • ...

20 Clues: the thinner crust • the thicker crust • supercontinent theory • Si (chemical element) • thinnest layer of the earth • its analogy is boiling water • chemical element found in the air • what allows plate tectonics to move • the component that mostly makes up earth • type of rock that makes up oceanic crust • the part of the core made up of solid iron • ...

21 Clues: Relating to the whole world • Events in nature that may have a negative effect • A rising body of water that submerges normally dry land • Forces resulting from processes occurring within Earth's crust • A prediction or estimate of future events, especially of weather • The temperature, wind, clouds, and precipitation in the atmosphere • ...

12 Clues: rock formed from solidification of lava or magma. • the weakening of rock by plants, animals and microbes. • rock that has undergone transformation by heat and pressure. • rock that has formed from sediment deposited by water or air. • plates which float on and travel independently over the earths mantle. • ...

20 Clues: What's the lowest layer • A type of tough volcanic rock • Where do most Volcanoes occur • The bottom/ground of the ocean • What was the supercontinent named • What Ocean do most Earthquakes occur • A boundary between two colliding plates • How many plates is the earth made up of • How many volcanoes are in the Ring of Fire • Who came up with the Continental Drift Theory • ...

12 Clues: The center part of Earth below the mantle • The point on earth's starting point, or focus • The layer of rock between Eart's crust and core. • scale A scale that expresses the magnitude of an earthquake. • The thin and solid outermost layer of Earth above the mantle. • An opening at the surface of Earth through which volcanic material passes • ...

26 Clues: the uneven breakage of a mineral • magma that reaches Earth's surface • The color of a mineral in powdered form • The way a mineral reflects light from its surface • a rock formed by the crystallization of molten magma • a fracture in Earth along which movement has occurred • A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other. • ...

26 Clues: the uneven breakage of a mineral • magma that reaches Earth's surface • The color of a mineral in powdered form • The way a mineral reflects light from its surface • a rock formed by the crystallization of molten magma • a fracture in Earth along which movement has occurred • A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other. • ...

10 Clues: the outermost layer of the earth • The innermost layer of the earth made of solid iron and nickel. • The second layer of the continental crust made up of basalt rock. • crust The thin part of the Earth's crust located under the oceans. • The boundary between Earth's crust and mantle. It is also known as the "Moho." • ...

10 Clues: The makeup of something • A measure of the amount of matter in an object • How tightly packed the matter in a substance is • Earthquakes and tectonic plate movement create seismic waves. • Thin outermost layer of earth. Made up mainly of granite and basalt • The layer of the earth located at the center of the earth and in made of 2 parts • ...

20 Clues: lines • lines • rock for the mantle • A crack or break in rock • of the earth that is water • Smaller earthquake after major earthquake • crust and the rigid part of the mantle's surface • Spreading/The moving apart of plates on the ocean floor • the point below the surface where the earthquake started • Drift The slow movement of of continents over the mantle • ...

15 Clues: =the study of Earth's magnetic field • Greek word that means "all the Earth." • reversal= a change in Earth's magnetic field • of the two plates is descending beneath the other • line on a map that connects point that have the same age • boundary=places where two tectonic plates are moving apart. • a device that can detect small changes in the magnetic field • ...

15 Clues: a crack or break in the earth's crust • the part of the earth where life exists • the thin layer of gases that surrounds the earth • molten rock that is located below the earth's surface • part of a continent that extends out underneath the ocean • A bend in layers of rock, sometimes, caused by plate movement • ...

48 Clues: crust. • mantle. • surface • theory. • surface. • earthquake. • an earthquake. • to through it. • part of earth. • layer of earth. • one who made the continental • change in the speed of body waves • layer of the earth where magma comes from. • arc-formed when two oceanic crusts collide. • very large wave that is caused by earthquake. • point on the surface directly above the focus. • ...

20 Clues: rhymes with java • the birth of mountains • the denser one goes under • rusting may make this familiar • batman has one as a secret lair • an angry mountain that spews lava • inclined surface also used to ski • 80 percent of earth's total volume • the study of earth's surface landforms • hot liquid rock beneath earth's surface • measure of energy released from earthquake • ...

21 Clues: It causes seasons • new and full moon • Consistent weather • 1st and 3rd quarter • revolves around Earth • something that repeated • It causes day and night • (in general use) weight. • Are on the periodic table • is The only habitable planet • Which planet is the closest to the sun? • is the brightest star in our solar system • How many planets are in our Solar System? • ...

26 Clues: The uneven breakage of a mineral. • Magma that reaches Earth's surface. • The color of a mineral in powdered form. • The way a mineral reflects light from its surface. • A rock formed by the crystallization of molten magma. • A fracture in Earth along which movement has occurred. • A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other. • ...

26 Clues: the uneven breakage of a mineral • magma that reaches Earth's surface • The color of a mineral in powdered form • The way a mineral reflects light from its surface • a rock formed by the crystallization of molten magma • a fracture in Earth along which movement has occurred • loose particles created by weathering and erosion of rock • ...

26 Clues: the uneven breakage of a mineral • magma that reaches Earth's surface • The color of a mineral in powdered form • The way a mineral reflects light from its surface • a rock formed by the crystallization of molten magma • a fracture in Earth along which movement has occurred • loose particles created by weathering and erosion of rock • ...

26 Clues: the uneven breakage of a mineral • magma that reaches Earth's surface • The color of a mineral in powdered form • The way a mineral reflects light from its surface • a rock formed by the crystallization of molten magma • a fracture in Earth along which movement has occurred • loose particles created by weathering and erosion of rock • ...

24 Clues: The central part of earth below the mantle. • The layer of rock between earth’s crust and the core • The bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth’s crust. • The thin and solid outermost layer of earth above the mantle. • The soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move. • boundary The boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding. • ...

21 Clues: a long narrow ditch • a main part of the world's land • an extended break in a body of rock • a sudden and violent shaking of the ground • A line of mountains connected by high ground • a tectonic boundary where two plates are moving toward each other • the thick part of the Earth's crust that forms the large landmasses • ...

21 Clues: Relating to the whole world • Events in nature that may have a negative effect • A rising body of water that submerges normally dry land • Forces resulting from processes occurring within Earth's crust • A prediction or estimate of future events, especially of weather • The temperature, wind, clouds, and precipitation in the atmosphere • ...

26 Clues: the uneven breakage of a mineral • magma that reaches Earth's surface • The color of a mineral in powdered form • The way a mineral reflects light from its surface • a rock formed by the crystallization of molten magma • a fracture in Earth along which movement has occurred • loose particles created by weathering and erosion of rock • ...

20 Clues: Weathered bedrock • Father of plate tectonics (1912) • Woody vine; Tarzan slid on these • Where freshwater and seawater mix • Mountain Building; birth of mountains • Rigid layer (rocky); crust and upper mantle • Non-flowering, spore producing plants; mosses • Rock peels or slips off; outer layer shedding • Compressed rocks that fold into an upward arch • ...

20 Clues: all lands • Wegeners hypothesis • what do seams form? • a large area of land • ______ is a silicate liquid • these are formed by subduction • this is made up of mafic rocks or sima • This adds more crust to the ocean floor • these are pieces of the Earth's lithosphere • _______ ______ in the magma drive plate tectonics • sea-floor spreading and ______ move the ocean floor • ...

24 Clues: ___ carry water downhill. • There is no ___ in space. • There is no ____ in space. • ___ are surrounded by land. • ___ are large balls of fire. • The ___ star to Earth is the Sun. • You can drink ___, not saltwater. • One trip around the Sun is one ___. • The ___ spins but you can't feel it. • The Earth orbits the ___ every year. • The ___ planets are closer together. • ...

20 Clues: hot or cold • the planet we live on • the second layer of Earth • fused or liquefied by heat • of or relating to the ocean • the thin top layer of Earth • the third layer of the Earth • the solid, outer part of Earth • being within;inside of anything • a hot, dense ball of mostly iron • what lubricates the plate tectonics • forming or belonging to a continent • ...

20 Clues: Slide past each other • folds shaped like an arch • age of rocks are determined by? • has a short half-life only 5,730 years. • is the process that turns sediment into rock. • when two continental plates are shoved together • a gap in the sequence of rock layers is called an • a layer or a series of layers of rock in the ground. • ...

20 Clues: The supercontinent • an area of relatively level high ground. • ductile region of the upper mantle of Earth. • core The center of the earth • Zone A complex area which little is known about. • Group of volcanic islands formed from ocean crust convergence • Waves are pressure waves that travel faster than other waves • ...

12 Clues: Moves apart • vibrates crust • Comes together • Super continent • slide past each other • Erupts with hot magma • Underwater mountain ridge • theory all continents drifted to current location • the movement of blocks along a fault is horizontal • New oceanic crust is formed from volcanic activity • ...

12 Clues: plate moving apart • underlies ocean basins • sliding past one another • mountains under the ocean • plates colliding together • diverge,converge,transform • famous example of diverge boundary • floats on top of the asthenosphere • famous example of converge boundary • famous example of transform boundary • when plates slip sideways past another • ...

12 Clues: the prefix that means across • the inner most layer of earth • the prefix that means 2 or apart • the outermost physical layer of Earth • the prefix that mean with or together • the bending, tilting, and breaking of rock • when tectonic plates move away from each other or divide • when tectonic plates move towards each other and collide • ...

12 Clues: The largest rodent on Earth • The theory made by Alfred Wegener • This is a cucumber soacked in vinegar • Is when one plate goes under the other • How much mass and weight an object has • Is two pieces of bread with meat in the middle • Is when two plates spread away from each other • This person invented the theory of continental drift • ...

8 Clues: lubricates plate tectonics • 1,355 miles thick 4th layer in earth. • thin uppermost layer found under the oceans. • the most solid and bulky part of earths interior. • Consist of the mountains,rocks,top soil,stones and sand. • Always stays a solid, made up of iron is also really hot. • made up of granitic,sedimentary,and metamorphic rocks,5-10 km thick • ...

12 Clues: Collide • Divide/Divorce • Slide/move away • Oceanic and Oceanic • Ocean and continental • The middle of the earth • The 3rd lay of the earth • The second layer of the earth • Transfrom/slide past each other • The top layer the one you stand on • When a Divergent of continental and continental • When a convergent of continental and continental

12 Clues: The second layer of the Earth • How many layers does the Earth have • Plates that move towards each other • Plates that move away from each other • What is the fourth layer of the Earth called? • The Tectonic Plates are part of the Earth's... • Two Plates the same size slide past each other • What is the Thinnest Layer of the Earth Called? • ...

12 Clues: Lowest layer of the Mantle • The outer core is in this state of matter • This layer of crust is denser and more likely to • The Earth's geosphere consists of this many layers • Upper layer of the Mantle where convection is occurs • The Lithosphere, Mesosphere and Inner core all share this property • Layer of the geosphere that encompasses the Crust and upper Mantle • ...

12 Clues: This rock is formed by magma • This rock is formed by erosion • A crack or a fracture in earths crust • This rock is formed by heat and pressure • Two plates that push away from each other • Blocks of crust that move past each other • Two plates that move away from each other • Molten rock stored beneath Earth's surface • ...

25 Clues: A raised block of the Earth's crust lying between two fault lines • The sinking or downward displacement of a part of the Earth's crust • The breaking and movement of rock along fractures in the Earth's crust • Faulting, A type of fault where rocks are pushed over each other at a low angle • ...

17 Clues: denser plate sinks below less dense plate • subduction zones create _________________ • tectonic plates that slide past each other • tectonic plates that move towards each other • ________ core is made of solid iron and nickel • tectonic plates that move away from each other • Transform boundaries create ____________ lines • ...