Chapter 7 vocabulary Plate Tectonics
Across
- 3. forms where two plates slide past each other
- 5. occurs and magnetic fields reverse
- 7. circulation of materials caused by differences in temperature and density
- 9. ridged rock slabs or plates that make up earth surface
- 11. magnetic objects reverse themselves and point south
- 13. form where two plates collide
- 16. new crust forms along mid-ocean ridge and old crust move away
Down
- 1. mountain ranges in the ocean
- 2. suggested that continents are in constant motion on the surface of the earth
- 4. forms where two plates separate
- 6. the cold and ridged outermost rock layer
- 8. as a slab sinks, it pulls on the rest of the plate with force
- 10. all the continents were one big continent
- 12. the denser plate sinks below the more buoyant plate
- 14. where magnetized objects will point in the northern direction
- 15. rising material at mid-ocean ridges creates the potential for plates to move away from the ridge with force