Tectonic Plates

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Across
  1. 7. An ancient specimen secured in rock
  2. 10. The idea of the continents slowly gliding over Earth
  3. 12. Breaks in the Earths crust
  4. 15. someone who studies seismic waves
  5. 17. the super continent that existed more than 200 million years
  6. 18. a boundary in which two plates scrape against each other in opposite direction
  7. 19. The process when Oceanic crust gets sucked underground into the mantle
  8. 20. An area where Earth's crust diverges above water
Down
  1. 1. a boundary in which two plates come together
  2. 2. a cycle of heat in which the hotter something is, the more it rises, and the colder something is, the more it sinks
  3. 3. An area where the ocean floor sinks into the mantle, forming a dipped area
  4. 4. Scientist that discovered Pangea's existence and presented the idea of continental drift
  5. 5. The solid parts of the Earth lithosphere that are broken into pieces
  6. 6. The theory about all motion of plates
  7. 8. A large well known belt of bubbles
  8. 9. Magma after it gets to the surface
  9. 11. a boundary where two plates split away from each other
  10. 13. An area in earths crust where magma is able to form and seep through
  11. 14. Long mountain range that forms underwater
  12. 16. heated material melted to a liquid state underground