plate Crossword Puzzles

10 Clues: spreading apart • coming together • sliding past each other • hot magma rises and cool magma falls • the earth is divided into 15 of these • a tectonic plate under water, usually thinner • large ditches formed by convergent boundaries • the layer of the mantle under the tectonic plates • where a thinner tectonic plate goes under a thicker one • ...

10 Clues: split in the earth • plate made of ocean • dividing/moving away • slide past each other • plate made of continent • magma creating new crust • molten rock in the earth • colliding/coming together • a shake or rupture in the earth • denser plate under less dense one

10 Clues: A plate moving towards another. • A plate moving away from another. • The thin outer layer of the Earth. • Where one plate moves past another. • A plate ______ is where plates meet. • A sudden violent shaking of the Earth. • Solid material in the centre of the Earth. • A long. high sea wave caused by earthquakes. • A mountain with an opening to the Earth's crust. • ...

10 Clues: Where an Earthquake originates. • Located directly above the Focus. • Occurs at Fault Lines and Plate Boundaries. • Plate boundaries moving towards one another. • Plate boundaries moving away from each other. • Waves Waves that move through the interior of the earth. • Waves Fastest Wave; Can travel through solids and liquids. • ...

10 Clues: one plate slides beneath the other plate • when two tectonic plates move away from each other • places where two or more plates move toward each other • plate boundaries are where the tectonic plates are moving towards each other. • type of divergent boundary where three tectonic plates meet at about 120° angles • ...

10 Clues: having solidified from lava or magma • a change in the constitution of rock • matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid; dregs • This occurs when plates move towards each other and collide • A rock that has formed from sediment deposited by water or air • a revolutionary theory explaining that continents shift position on Earth's surface • ...

10 Clues: motlen rock • caused in mantle • make up Earth's crust • plates moving same direction • plates rubbing on other plate • mountain were magma shoots out • plates moving opposite direction • from plates rubbing on other plate • caused by plate moving same direction • caused by plates moving opposite direction

10 Clues: Kas ir porti? • ko dara skaņas karte? • video karte ir .... plate? • Kur šobrīd ir tīkla karte? • mātes plate ir .... plate? • Skaņas kartei var pievienot ? • vieta kas ir atmiņa datorā? • sistēmas bloka divas galvenās daļas ? • mikroshēma kas ir centrālais procesors? • ° Brīvpiekļuves divu veidu atmiņas dotorā?

10 Clues: Molten rock • when a plate subducts into the mantle • the plate boundaries that slide apart • where two plates slide past each other • a place where magma comes up from the crust • Where a transform boundary has pushed up crust • when a plate goes under another into the mantle • currents in the mantle that make the plates move • ...

10 Clues: Molten rock • when a plate subducts into the mantle • the plate boundaries that slide apart • where two plates slide past each other • a place where magma comes up from the crust • Where a transform boundary has pushed up crust • when a plate goes under another into the mantle • currents in the mantle that make the plates move • ...

27 Clues: hole • opening • sleeping • thick lava • runny lava • never again • up and down • earths heat • stores magma • caved in lava • sits sideways • middle of plate • calm lava flows • alternating lava • currently erupting • makes magma thicker • when lava pours out • violent with cinders • water heated by magma • thickness of a liquid • edge of pacific plate • magma chamber hardens • eruption of heated water • ...

25 Clues: sleeping • runny lava • thick lava • earths heat • never again • up and down • stores magma • sits sideways • calm lava flows • middle of plate • alternating lava • caved in volcano • hole vent opening • currently erupting • when lava pours out • makes magma thicker • violent with cinders • edge of pacific plate • water heated by magma • magma chamber hardens • eruption of heated water • ...

26 Clues: hole • opening • sleeping • runny lava • thick lava • never again • earths heat • up and down • sits sideways • alternating lava • caved in volcano • calm, lava flows • middle of a plate • currently erupting • makes magma thicker • when lava pours out • violent with cinders • magma hardens in pipe • edge of pacific plate • magma chamber hardens • water heated by magma • thickness of a liquid • ...

27 Clues: hole • opening • sleeping • runny lave • thick lava • up and down • never again • earth's heat • stores magma • sits sideways • caved in volcano • calm, lava flows • alternating lava • middle of a plate • currently erupting • makes magma thicker • when lava pours out • violent with cinders • thickness of a liquid • water heated by magma • magma chamber hardens • edge of Pacific Plate • eruption of heated water • ...

27 Clues: hole • opening • sleeping • sideways • runny lava • thick lava • never again • up and down • stores magma • Earth's heat • calm, lava flows • alternating lava • caved in volcano • middle of a plate • currently erupting • makes magma thicker • when lava pours out • violent with cinders • magma chamber hardens • thickness of a liquid • water heated by magma • magma hardens in pipe • eruption of heated water • ...

27 Clues: hole • opening • sleeping • thick lava • runny lava • never again • up and down • stores magma • Earth's heat • sits sidways • middle of plate • caved in volcano • calm, lava flows • alternating lava • currently erupting • makes magma thicker • when lava pours out • violent with cinders • water heated by magma • thickness of a liquid • edge of pacific plate • magma chamber hardens • eruption of heated water • ...

27 Clues: hole • opening • sleeping • runny lava • thick lava • never again • up and down • earths heat • stores magma • sits sidewase • caved in volcano • alternating lava • calm, lava flows • middle of a plate • vilont with cinders • currently eroupting • when lava pours out • makes magma thicker • thickness of a liquid • water heated by magma • Edge of pacific plate • magma chamber hardends • magma hardens in the pipe • ...

20 Clues: to fry • to cut • to cooking • to store food • to sore drinks • to scoop up food • to start the fire • to store hot water • rack to store plate • to clean the kitchen • to smooth the spices • for boiling or cooking • to wipe the dirty parts • cooker to cook some rice • to bake of warm up dishes • container to store seasonings • to storing vegetables and fruits • to smooth the spices and make juice • ...

27 Clues: hole • opening • sleeping • runny lava • thick lava • up ans down • earths heat • never again • stores magma • sits sideways • middle of plate • alternating lava • caved in volcano • clam lava folows • currently erupting • when lava pours out • makes magma thicker • violent with cinders • thickness of a liquid • magma chamber hardens • water geated by magma • edge of pacific plate • eruptoin of heated water • ...

21 Clues: To go under • Explosive volcano • Non-explosive volcano • Boundaries going apart • Violent ground shaking • Boundaries slipping past • The lower plastic mantle • Outer layer of the planet • Seafloor spreading theory • Contintental drift theory • Boundaries coming together • Caused by magnetic changes • The more dense tectonic plate • The less dense tectonic plate • ...

20 Clues: soft spot • end of long bone • hollow air cavity • binds bone to bone • between two vertebrae • there are twelve pairs • helps form bony tissue • mid portion of long bone • upper portion of sternum • end of ulna at the elbow • process of bone formation • membrane surrounding bones • on both sides of ankle joint • immovable joint between bones • at the epiphyseal growth plate • ...

20 Clues: It is the submerged volcanoes. • Where does the ridge push occur. • Opposite of a convergent boundary. • These are depressions on the ocean floor. • Which boundary occurs when two plates move away. • Which layer of the Earth has convection currents. • Type of plate movement is in the San Andreas Fault. • Kind of plate boundary occurs in sea floor spreading. • ...

20 Clues: large water mass • is the edges where two plates meet. • The center of the Earth that is very hot • earths layer with crust and upper mantle • Geographical study of the Earth's structure • the uppermost solid part of the Earth's crust • An area of rock that has been bent by stress. • The shape and features of the surface of the land • ...

14 Clues: Where two plates meet • How often something happens • Someone who studies fossils • Shaking of the Earths surface • Used to track tectonic plates • When two plates move away from each other • Shows how the earth looks under the surface • The layer between the Earths crust and core • A scientist who studies the Earth's geosphere • ...

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 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: 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 • ...

15 Clues: moving toward the same place • to examine in detail for a purpose • a sudden shaking of Earth’s surface • moving apart in different directions • boundary the place where two plates meet • the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth’s plates • an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago • a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like • ...

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: 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: 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 • ...

14 Clues: Moving toward the same place • The place where two plates meet • To examine in detail for a purpose • A sudden shaking of Earth's surface • How often or fast something happens • Moving apart in different directions • The outside or top layer of something • Something we observe to be similar over and over again • The layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates • ...

14 Clues: a massive, irregularly shaped slab of solid rock • A deep valley that forms where two plates move apart • A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other. • A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other. • how much matter or mass there is in a given amount of space or volume • ...

16 Clues: Causes continental drift • softest part of the mantle • Name of the "supercontinent" • study of the magnetic fields in rocks • crust and the upper part of the mantle • Scientist who discovered sea-floor spreading • when one plate slides underneath another plate • Currents in the mantle that cause plate movement • Oceanic Crust is ____ dense than continents crust • ...

17 Clues: the pieces of Earth • the building of cities • crust found under land • crust found under water • the solid layer of the Earth • the break down of rock into sediment • the plate boundary where earthquakes happen • a negative effect of mining and deforestation • the type of rock formed via heat and pressure • the plate boundary where volcanoes never happen • ...

8 Clues: Thickest part of the earth • Thinnest layer of the earth • Plate Biggest continental plate • plate Smallest continental plate • Caused by tectonic plates colliding • Made when all continents connect together • Plates PLates that move away from each other • american plate Cause lots of earthquakes in california

15 Clues: A process that occurs at mid-ocean ridges. • A large elongated depression with steep walls. • A line connecting points to the same time or equal times. • A proposed mechanism for plate motion in plate tectonics. • The movement of the Earth's continents relative to each other. • The branch of geophysics concerned with the magnetism in rocks. • ...

15 Clues: - The transfer of energy through space • - The soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats • The layer of hot, solid material between Earth’s crust and core • Boundary- A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other • Boundary- A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other • ...

13 Clues: two plates moving towards each other • two plates moving away from each other • hot liquid rock once it reaches the surface • a large continuous area of land on earths surface • hot liquid rock underneath the surface of the earth • past forms of life that is kept in place within rock • a sudden shaking of the earth caused by plate movement • ...

10 Clues: Creates new crust • Formed by divergent plate boundaries • A result of transform plate boundaries • When two tectonic plates collide together • The movement of energy from place to place • The hot liquid substance in Earth's mantle • Pieces of Earth's crust that roughly fit together • Plates The scientific theory on how land forms are created • ...

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: 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: new crust is formed • layer under the crust • layer below the mantle • the plates moving apart • a ball of iron and nickel • the plates coming together • fracture in the earth crust • plates slide past each other • movement of plates over time • outermost layer of the earth • the crust and uppermost mantle • when one plate is below another • when stress causes rocks to be squeezed • ...

14 Clues: this type of island forms from eruptions • deep crevice caused by a subduction zone • when 2 plates meet, it is called a "plate __" • this occurs most often at a transform boundary • this type of crust can be found in ocean basins • this type of crust can be found under continents • when 2 plates meet and one moves under the other • ...

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: 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. • ...

14 Clues: THE PLATES ARE MOVING VERY... • WHAT THE PLATES ARE FLOATING ON. • THIS IS WHERE AN EARTHQUAKE STARTS • OCCUR WHERE PLATE BOUNDARIES CONVERGE. • A GRAPH THAT MEASURES EARTHQUAKE ACTIVITY. • THIS IS AN AREA WHERE TWO PLATES COME TOGETHER. • VIBRATIONS FROM THE EARTHQUAKE CREATE ____ WAVES • ALFRED___ EXPLAINED HOW CONTINENTS ARE DRIFTING. • ...

14 Clues: An under water mountain range. • An indent into the ocean floor • a sudden shake of earths surface • Plates move toward the same place • A land mass that can be different • to examine in detail for a purpose • One of the big boundaries of a map • The deepest part of the earth core • a similar puzzle that repeats and repeats • A purposed question about the natural world • ...

14 Clues: includes the crust and upper mantle • process that makes a mid-ocean ridge • a boundary in which two plates separate • the layer of the Earth that houses magma • a boundary in which plates are colliding • theory that says the continents are moving • the scientist who came up with continental drift • a boundary where two plates slide past each other • ...

14 Clues: moving toward the same place • the place where two plates meet • a sudden shaking of Earth's surface • moving apart in different directions • the outside or top layer of something • something we observe to be similar over and over again • an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago • a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like • ...

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 • ...

12 Clues: What do you call a sour cucumber. • What was the Alfred Wegener's theory? • What is a word that describes how close molecules are together. • What type of boundary creates new crust and makes seafloor spread? • What type of boundary is when a plate slides against another plate? • What do you call it when a tectonic plate slips under another plate? • ...

9 Clues: The name for the natural nail • The natural nail is composed of • area where the nail plate cells are formed • Hardened Keratin plate that sit on the nail bed • Part of the nail plate that extends over the tip • living skin as the base of the natural nail plate • whitish, half-moon shape underneath the nail base • ...

12 Clues: computer aided design such as Tinkercad of OnShape • a base layer that ensures adhesion to the build plate • first model of a design that future versions are developed • the process of doing something more than once to improve it • part of the 3D printer that warms up for filament to adhere • first build levels that ensure a firm foundation on the build plate • ...

10 Clues: Name one plate. • What plate boundary creates crust. • What plate boundary destroys crust. • What currents causes plates to move. • What are formed by plates separating. • What mountains are formed by plates colliding. • Name a mineral that makes up part of the core. • Which Wegener proposed the theory of Plate Tectonics. • ...

10 Clues: The type of plate found under oceans. • Molten liquid rock below the surface of the Earth. • Molten liquid rock above the surface of the Earth. • The margin or boundary between two tectonic plates. • The type of plate that forms the Earth's continents. • Tectonic plate margin where two tectonic plates slide past each other. • ...

10 Clues: one plate slides beneath the other plate • when two tectonic plates move away from each other • places where two or more plates move toward each other • plate boundaries are where the tectonic plates are moving towards each other. • type of divergent boundary where three tectonic plates meet at about 120° angles • ...

24 Clues: an observation • a break in a body • outer most part of the crust • tectonics earths outer layer • the ridged upper part of the mantle • a moving or trembling on the ground • the central part of earth below the mantle • the thin and solid layer of earth above the mantle • the bending, tilting, and breaking of earths crust • ...

20 Clues: two plates slide past each other • a bubbly, extrusive, basaltic lava • one plate slides under another plate • boundary between the crust and mantle • an underwater plain found deep in the ocean • the focal point or origin point of an earthquake • hot and less dense liquid rises and cools, then sinks • under the lithosphere and consists of the upper mantle • ...

28 Clues: a fungal infection of the nail • layer, protecting the nail bed • the technical term for a hangnail • causing the overlap of the nail plate • the chemical used to remove nail polish • the technical term for the nail cuticle • bed, the living tissue under the nail plate • Spots, a disorder causing these on the nails • the skin that overlaps the sides of the nail • ...

21 Clues: small pieces of rock • moving toward the same place • a sudden shaking of Earth’s surface • moving apart in different directions • hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth • the process of sediment being glued together • the rock type formed when magma cools and becomes solid • the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth’s plates • ...

21 Clues: sudden events that led to a mass extinction • Located between the mantle and the outer core • Rock formed when lava or magma cools and hardens • extinction events that occur over a longer period • instruments used to measure and record seismic wave • Fractures of zones of weakness in the Earth's crust • A group of the same species living in the same area • ...

17 Clues: the pieces of Earth • the building of cities • crust found under land • crust found under water • the solid layer of the Earth • the break down of rock into sediment • the plate boundary where earthquakes happen • a negative effect of mining and deforestation • the type of rock formed via heat and pressure • the plate boundary where volcanoes never happen • ...

15 Clues: Seafloor • Upper mantle • Iron and nickel • Sining of a plate • Hydrothermal vent • Two plates sliding • Collision of plates • Two plates seprating • Surrounds the planet • Crust + uppermost mantle • Cracks in the earths surface • One plate subducted under the other • Continous chain of volcanic mountains • Near melting point of rock; semi-plastic • ...

20 Clues: It is the submerged volcanoes. • Where does the ridge push occur. • Opposite of a convergent boundary. • These are depressions on the ocean floor. • Which boundary occurs when two plates move away. • Which layer of the Earth has convection currents. • Type of plate movement is in the San Andreas Fault. • The shaking is caused by movements in Earth’s outermost • ...

20 Clues: two plates slide past each other • a bubbly, extrusive, basaltic lava • one plate slides under another plate • boundary between the crust and mantle • an underwater plain found deep in the ocean • the focal point or origin point of an earthquake • hot and less dense liquid rises and cools, then sinks • under the lithosphere and consists of the upper mantle • ...

20 Clues: Thickest layer of the Earth • 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 he Earth • A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other • A soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats • ...

21 Clues: Sudden events that led to a mass extinction • located between the mantle and the outer core • Rock formed when lava or magma cools and hardens • A group of the same species living in the same area • Fractures or zones of weakness in the Earth's crust • Instruments used to measure and record seismic waves • Extinction events that occur over a longer time period • ...

23 Clues: Molten rock beneath Earth's surface. • A large, deep-seated igneous intrusion. • Molten rock that has erupted onto Earth's surface. • An intrusive igneous rock body formed underground. • A small, rounded volcano formed by thick, viscous lava. • Fragments of volcanic material ejected during an eruption. • A broad, gently sloping volcano formed by fluid lava flows. • ...

20 Clues: two plates slide past each other • a bubbly, extrusive, basaltic lava • one plate slides under another plate • boundary between the crust and mantle • an underwater plain found deep in the ocean • the focal point or origin point of an earthquake • hot and less dense liquid rises and cools, then sinks • under the lithosphere and consists of the upper mantle • ...

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 • ...

20 Clues: Thinner, denser younger crust. • Thicker, less dense, older crust. • The soft layer of the mantle below the lithosphere. • A plate boundary where plates slide past each other. • A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other. • an underwater mountain chain where new ocean floor is formed • A plate boundary where two plates move apart from each other. • ...

25 Clues: healthy fats • need to moderate • fats we need to AVOID • purple on the food plate (5oz) • orange on the food plate (6oz) • blue on the food plate (3 cups) • red on the food plate, (1 1/2 cups) • recommended adult intake of calories • green on the food plate, (2 1/2 cups) • calories that have NO nutritional value • how are ingredients listed on a food label • ...

20 Clues: to build up • to cause damage or to destroy • the rate an area is worn down over time • long, narrow depressions on the seafloor • sediment is moved from one place to another • how much an area of land is pushed up over time • a seafloor mountain system formed by plate tectonics • are gigantic pieces of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle • ...

12 Clues: What country is the Rift Valley in? • What causes the formation of the mountains? • What country is the result of an island arc? • What is the name of the formation that creates • What is the main cause of the sea floor spreading? • What is the boundary called when two plates scrape? • What is caused when a heavier plate meets a lighter plate? • ...

15 Clues: crayones es... • el cuadro es... • fantasmas son... • el ... a la obra • contra el normas • yo ... en el oceano • el concierto es ... • yo ... a la estanque • yo ... con mi paleta • yo vivo la escuela ... • el ... sobre rotura el plate • caundo es tranquilo, es .... • yo ... a la rio con mi paleta • personas bebe te cuando estan.... • disculpas el ... sobre rotura el plate

15 Clues: Seafloor • Upper mantle • Iron and nickel • Hydrothermal vent • Two plates sliding • Sinking of a plate • Collision of plates • Surrounds the planet • Two plates separating • Crust + uppermost mantle • Cracks in the earths surface • One plate subducted under the other • Continous chain of volcanic mountains • Near melting point of rock; semi-plastic • ...

15 Clues: Seafloor • Upper mantle • Iron and nickel • Hydrothermal vent • Two plates sliding • Sinking of a plate • Collision of plates • Surrounds the planet • Two plates separating • Crust + uppermost mantle • Cracks in the earths surface • One plate subducted under the other • Continous chain of volcanic mountains • Near melting point of rock; semi-plastic • ...

19 Clues: huge super continent • area made up of lower mantle • the top most layer we stand on • large underwater mountain range • the switching of the magnetic poles • motion that transfers energy ->->-> • area made up of upper mantle and crust • energy transfer by movement of material • tectonic plate boundary that pulls apart • earth's thickest layer, semi-liquid layer • ...

15 Clues: The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves • A deep valley that forms where two plates move apart. • A weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface. • The transfer of thermal energy from one particle of matter to another. • The pressured remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past. • ...

12 Clues: molten rock • Wind and water • Hard rocky shell forming Earth's surface • Process where two plates are pushed apart • Large bodies of rock that move along Earth's surface • large piles of rocks and debris resultant of melting glaciers • Theory that the continents were once joined and drifted apart • Process where Earth's crust cracks and breaks into huge blocks • ...

12 Clues: a boundary where two plates collide • a thick plate containing a continent • a thin plate which is covered by oceans • cracks in the crust between tectonic plates • a boundary where two plates are moving apart • a boundary where two plates slide by each other • molten rock which has come out of the Earth usually at a volcano • ...

12 Clues: Caused by transform plate boundaries • Where the crust and mantle are located • Plate boundary that moves towards each other • Plate boundary that move away from each other • Plate boundary that shifts against each other • The super continent from millions of years ago • When convergent plates push continental crust upward • ...

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: 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: 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

14 Clues: Rocky crust • Quantity measured • When plates collide • Small portions analyzed • Global Positioning System • Someone who studies earth • Edges where two plates meet • Solid bulk of earth interior • Sudden shaking of the ground • Big slab of irregularly shaped rock • When plates move away from each other • Rocks and minerals that shape the earth • ...

14 Clues: When a part of Earth shakes. • section, Cutting a core sample. • The amount of times something happens. • Also known as the Global Positioning System. • outer layer, This is also known as Earth´s crust. • sample, Something someone would get inside of Earth • _____________ study the Earth and what it is made of. • _________ is the mostly-solid bulk of Earth's interior. • ...