Alex Science Crossword
Across
- 3. Theory of how the plates move.
- 6. Transfer of heat through motion of liquids and gases.
- 7. Idea that continents move around on Earth's surface.
- 9. A long chain of undersea mountains.
- 14. A lithospheric plate boundary where two plates come together.
- 15. Process involving a lithospheric plate sinking into the mantle.
- 17. Thick layer of Earth between crust and core.
- 18. Huge landmass composed of earlier forms of todays continents.
- 19. A lithospheric plate ________ where two plates move apart.
- 20. Outermost layer of Earth.
Down
- 1. Seismic waves that move side to side.
- 2. Vibrations that are caused by earthquakes.
- 4. Thick lithospheric plates that form the continents.
- 5. Plates that form the ocean floor.
- 8. Valley in the ocean created when one lithospheric plate subducts under another.
- 10. Movement beginning at one location and sets thing in motion far away.
- 11. Waves that move with a forward and backwards motion.
- 12. Scientists who detect seismic waves.
- 13. The center of the Earth.
- 16. Mass of an object divided by its volume.