CAMDENS CROSSWORD PUZZEL PLATE TECTONIC.
Across
- 2. a weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface.
- 4. boundary: a plate boundary where two plate move past each other in different directions.
- 11. trench: an under valley that represents one of the deepest parts of the ocean.
- 12. boundary: a plate where two plates move toward each other.
- 13. a giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor.
- 16. a break in earth's crust along which rocks move.
- 17. boundary: a plates boundary where two plates move away from each other.
- 18. stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks.
- 20. the shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath earth's surface.
Down
- 1. term used to describe a volcano that is not currently active but able to become active in the future.
- 3. a molten mixture of rock forming substances gases and water from the mantle.
- 5. the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle at the convergent plate boundary.
- 6. a force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume.
- 7. spreading: the process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor.
- 8. spot: an area was magma from deep within the mantle melts the crust above it.
- 9. stress that stretches rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle.
- 10. stress that pushes masses of rock in opposite directions in a sideways movement.
- 14. ridges: an undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced a divergent plate boundary under the ocean.
- 15. liquid magma that reaches the surfaces.
- 19. the measurements of an earthquake's strength based on seismic waves and movement along faults.