Crossword Puzzle for Plate Tectonics
Across
- 1. volcanoes erupt from this substance called "Lava'. Once the magma is ready to be set free it causes the volcano to erupt.
- 3. Boundary, A convergent boundary is an area on Earth where two or more plates collide.
- 7. The mantle lies between Earth's dense, super-heated core and its thin outer layer, the crust
- 9. Subduction as the process by which tectonic plates sink into Earth's mantle.
- 12. “Crust” describes the hard surface shell coving the mantle of our planet.
- 14. Tectonics, a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust.
- 15. As the magma flows out, it cools, hardening to form new crust, This fills in the gap created by the Tectonic plates.
- 16. Boundary, A divergent boundary occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other
- 17. The researchers believe this shift is the earliest proof that modern like plate motion happened between two to four billion years ago.
- 18. inside the crust and core it is pitch solid.
- 19. A tectonic plate can be a massive, irregularly shaped solid rock.
Down
- 1. Earth has many different layers such as, the mantle, Core, and crust.
- 2. When two plates come in contact with each other through plate tectonics, scientists can use the density of the plates to predict what will happen.
- 3. Earth's core is the very hot and dense center of our planet.
- 4. The lower boundary of a plate depends on the temperature of the mantle material.
- 5. Once a tectonic plate Alters is shifts something in or out of the earth.
- 6. The continents are made within the plates.
- 8. a process that takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates.
- 10. Boundary, Transform boundaries are places where plates slide sideways past each other.
- 11. in earth, Earth's shell cracked into these plates.
- 13. Earthquakes occur along lines, cracks in Earth's crust where tectonic plates meet.
- 18. floor, Bathymetry, the shape of the ocean floor, is largely a result of a process called plate tectonics.