8.9 ABC Vocab Crossword
Across
- 3. Plate division of the lithosphere that includes most of the landmasses of Europe and Asia.
- 6. parallel pattern of rock material found at identical locations across the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Discovered by Harry Hess.
- 10. Tectonic plates that lie under surface land masses.
- 14. Difference in elevation between two adjacent contour lines of a topographic map.
- 16. The continents drifted on the water because fossils and land forms match up
- 19. When two plates slide past each other.
- 21. Solid fragments of weathered rock are eroded and then dropped into a new place.
- 23. When two plates move away from each other
- 24. Plate division of the lithosphere that includes the crust of India, Australia, and the ocean.
- 26. Photos or images from taken of Earth from space.
- 29. When a denser plate is pushed down and beneath a less dense plate.
- 30. Tectonic plates that are at the bottom of the ocean
- 31. Long crack in the surface of the Earth where earthquakes usually occur.
- 33. The study of many different kinds of Earth science.
- 34. Oceanic tectonic plate in the southeastern Pacific Ocean.
Down
- 1. Plate division of the lithosphere that includes the crust of South America extending to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge.
- 2. Plate division of the lithosphere that is composed entirely of oceanic crust under the Pacific ocean.
- 4. The amount of matter in a tectonic plate. Oceanic plates are a higher density than Continental plates.
- 5. Thicker line marking every 5th contour line of a map.
- 7. Huge pieces of lithosphere that move slowly and cause landforms.
- 8. Seafloor mountain system formed by divergent boundaries.
- 9. When two continental tectonic plates move towards each other and collide.
- 11. Line on a map that connects points with the same elevation.
- 12. Natural physical features of the earth's surface.
- 13. A super-continent of all of our continent together.
- 15. Plate division of the lithosphere that includes the crust of Greenland, North America, Siberia, and surrounding ocean.
- 17. Map showing the shape and elevation of the land surface using contour lines.
- 18. 2nd theory on the way continents move. Instead of continents moving it's something called tectonics plates.
- 20. Study of shape of Earth’s surface and its physical features.
- 22. Process by which water, ice, wind, and gravity removes and transports sediments.
- 25. Plate division of the lithosphere that includes the crust of Africa and the surrounding ocean crust.
- 27. Distance above sea level.
- 28. Plate division of the lithosphere the includes the crust of Antarctica and surrounding ocean.
- 32. processes that break rocks into smaller pieces mechanically or chemically.