Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Across
- 3. A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust
- 8. A soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats
- 9. A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of the Earth
- 10. The name of the single landmass that broke apart about 225 million years ago
- 11. A deep canyon on the ocean floor
- 12. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
- 13. A break or crack in the Earth's lithosphere along which rocks move
- 14. Cause the plates to move; between the lithosphere and the asthenosphere
- 15. Dense ball of solid material at the center of the Earth
Down
- 1. The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary
- 2. A plate boundary where two plates grind against each other, moving in different directions
- 4. A deep valley where two plates move apart
- 5. Thickest layer of the Earth; it consists of two layers - the lithosphere and the asthenosphere
- 6. Alfred Wegener's hypothesis that the continents were once one huge landmass but have since then drifted apart
- 7. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other