Plate Tectonic
Across
- 2. At a subduction zone, a sequence of volcanoes erupted.
- 4. Underground movement along a fault plane caused by volcanic activity causes tremors and vibrations at the earth's surface.
- 7. A plate boundary is formed when two plates move in opposite directions past one other.
- 8. A volcano arises when magma surfaces at a weak area in the midst of a tectonic plate (ex: Hawaii & Yellowstone)
- 10. A crack in the earth's Surface
- 12. The concept that continents have migrated and continue to move slowly across the globe.
- 14. Subduction is going place beneath the seafloor in a deep linear depression.
- 15. Sections of the Earth's crust sliding to lower heights
- 17. Convection and plastic flow are thought to occur in the upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere, where there is relatively low resistance to plastic flow.
- 18. The downward displacement of a block of the earth's surface between nearly parallel faults or fault systems creates a vast elongated depression with steep sides.
- 19. Two plates collide, come together, or crash into one other at a tectonic plate boundary.
Down
- 1. The line that separates two tectonic plates that are drifting apart.
- 3. As plates move apart from one other along mid-ocean ridges, a new sea floor is created.
- 5. Rock is compressed until it folds or breaks as a result of the stress.
- 6. The point at which oceanic plates collide with the asthenosphere.
- 9. The idea that the lithosphere is divided up into enormous plates that travel about before reuniting.
- 10. a bending of rock strata, often caused by plate movement
- 11. On top of the asthenosphere, a section of the lithosphere that travels about.
- 13. the point where two plates collide
- 16. The ascent of parts of the Earth's crust to greater heights