Cross Word Puzzle
Across
- 6. where magma reaches the earth's surface (at the rift valleys)
- 7. a process in which material rises and falls because of differences in temperature and density. It moves the plates.
- 8. the lithosphere is broken into pieces of different shapes and sizes
- 9. A curving chain of mountain volcanoes that forms on the continent during subduction when oceanic crust collides into continental crust
- 13. Boundary where plates slide past each other horizontally
- 14. zone The region where oceanic plates sink down into the asthenosphere.
- 18. mountain chain, along the west coast of South America
- 19. boundaries where 2 plates collide and part of a plate is destroyed.
- 23. the longest underwater mountain range on Earth, running north to south down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean
- 24. Volcanic islands that form as a result of oceanic crust colliding with another oceanic crust during subduction
- 25. under water mountain chains created by sea floor spreading
Down
- 1. boundaries where 2 plates move apart and it creates new crust.
- 2. another name for convergent boundaries because crust is destroyed
- 3. is the process in which denser plate is pushed downward beneath another plate where it will go into the asthenosphere and melt into magma.
- 4. by oceanic and continental collisions (convergent boundary)
- 5. Proposed the theory of sea-floor spreading
- 10. older rocks located further from midocean ridges. Evidence for sea floor spreading.
- 11. due to magnetic reversal recorded in the ocean floor. Stripes appear in the same pattern on both sides of the rift valley. Evidence for sea floor spreading.
- 12. an area where 2 plates meet
- 14. A major fault in California formed by a sliding transform boundary.
- 15. another name for divergent boundaries because new crust is created.
- 16. Area around the Pacific Ocean known for frequent earthquakes and volcanoes
- 17. an area where plates moved apart and magma poured out
- 20. These mountains separate India from China and are the tallest in the world. Formed at convergent boundaries between continental and continental plate
- 21. deep areas on the ocean floor that are created by a subducting plate
- 22. a process in which new ocean floor is created when 2 plates move apart allowing lava to rise through the rift valley.