Tectonic Plate Crossword
Across
- 3. Where two plates are moving apart
- 4. They are created by subduction
- 5. A fine grained volcanic rock formed by the partial of the mantle
- 7. A dark intrusive igneous rock
- 9. The pieces of earths crust
- 11. Where two plates are colliding.
- 13. A fracture or zone of fractures in the earth along which there has been a displacement of the sides relative to one another
- 14. The solid outer portion of the earth
- 15. Molten material erupted at the surface of the earth
- 16. Atom with same atomic number, different number of neutrons
- 17. The act of imitating the behaviour of some situation
- 18. The outer layer of the earth
- 19. The layer of the earth between the crust and the core
- 20. Large section of earths crust and upper mantle that moves around on the asthenosphere
Down
- 1. Molten rock in the earths crust
- 2. A specialist in the history of the earth in rocks
- 6. Rigid layer made out of and upper mantle
- 8. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate
- 10. The lower layer of the crust
- 12. Where plates slide passed each other