Earths Moving Plates

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Across
  1. 2. A crack or fracture in the Earth's crust associated with the movement of plates
  2. 6. The dense layer of hot, semisolid rock located directly below the crust
  3. 7. A boundary where two plates slide horizontally past one another in opposite directions
  4. 8. A plate boundary where two plates push toward each other or collide, often forming mountains
  5. 9. Circular currents in the mantle caused by heating and cooling that act as the "engine" for plate movement
  6. 10. The scientist who noticed continents fit like puzzle pieces and proposed the theory of Continental Drift
  7. 11. The process where a denser oceanic plate dived underneath a continental plate and melts
Down
  1. 1. The Greek word for "all the earth"; the original supercontinent that existed 250 million years ago
  2. 3. A deep valley in the ocean floor created at a subduction zone
  3. 4. The rigid outer part of Earth, consisting of the crust and the very top of the mantle
  4. 5. Molten rock found below the ground that oozes up to fill gaps between plates
  5. 9. The Earth's "skin"; its hard, rigid, and thinnest outermost layer
  6. 12. A plate boundary where plates move apart or divide, creating new ocean floor