Crossword Puzzle Chapter 31 Plate Tectonics Earth Science
Across
- 2. layer of earth-- rocks, crust, plates
- 3. The type of boundary when plates pull apart and separate
- 4. The type of boundary when each plate slides along past each other
- 7. name of the supercontinent. Means "universal land"
- 8. molten rock under Earth's surface
- 9. The Mid Atlantic ____ is the tallest mountain range in world
- 11. The process of _____ reversal is when polarity on earth reverses itself
- 17. Organisms that live in severe and extreme conditions
- 18. The ______ core is made of hot, liquid iron. Is magnetic
- 19. _____ plates are sections of moving crust
- 21. process of how the Earth sorted itself into layers
- 25. science of something (suffix)
- 26. surface layer of Earth, very thin
- 27. study of Earth's structure and composition
- 29. The ____ mantle has rigid rocks near the core
- 30. A _____ zone is where the lithosphere sinks and melts
Down
- 1. The _____ crust is land masses, less dense and with granite
- 5. thin layer of gasses surrounding Earth
- 6. thick layer of hot, molten magma
- 10. the mass and volume of a substance volume (mass/volume)
- 12. center layers of the Earth
- 13. vertical, up and down crust movements
- 14. Vents called ____ vents live at the bottom of the ocean and release gasses
- 15. moving, flowing, mantle rock, plastic like
- 16. scientist who studies something (suffix)
- 18. The ______ crust is
- 20. The type of boundary when plates come together and collide
- 22. The _____ core is solid, very dense, hot and pressurized
- 23. Sound navigation ranging
- 24. where large land masses reach down into the mantle
- 28. what melted rock is described as (magma)