Charlie's Dynamic Earth vocabulary
Across
- 6. a space around an invisible electric current
- 7. the type of rock oceanic plates are made from
- 8. Only liquid layer of Earth
- 11. Made the theory of continental drift
- 12. Located at the center of Earth
- 15. more thick type of crust
- 16. release of energy from the lithosphere
- 19. drives the movement of tectonic plates
- 20. two plates slide past each other
- 22. thinner type of crust
- 23. Alfred Wegener's frowned theory
- 24. Mapped the seafloor
- 25. what is moving Eurasia and North America
Down
- 1. semiliquid zone
- 2. hot liquid inside of Earth
- 3. Made up of the crust and a bit of upper mantle
- 4. two continental plates leave each other at a divergent boundary
- 5. a curved chain of volcanoes formed by subduction
- 9. when two plates push towards each other
- 10. The type of rock oceanic plates are made of
- 13. Located below crust
- 14. when plates move apart
- 17. where two tectonic plates collide at a convergent boundary
- 18. Earth's thinest layer (but hard and rigid)
- 21. Supercontinent about 250 million years ago