Earth's Tectonic Plates
Across
- 2. Causes the plates to move within Earth's mantle.
- 5. The point on Earth's surface directly above the place where an earthquake occurs.
- 7. The oldest continental crust is about 4 ___ yrs old.
- 10. ___ is divided into plates.
- 11. Plates move by _____ spreading.
- 14. A device capable of measuring the magnetic field.
- 15. ____ polar wonder is a phenomenon that the magnetic pole has seemed to moved.
- 16. Measures the ground shaking.
Down
- 1. Were once joined and the moved apart.
- 3. Rocks on the seafloor that were at the mid-ocean ridges.
- 4. Noticed that South America and Africa appeared to fit together like a puzzle.
- 6. A large chunk of lithosphere.
- 8. Plate move around Earth's surface at a rate of a few ____ a year.
- 9. ____ material is heather above the core.
- 12. Some rocks contain little ____.
- 13. The magnetic ___ reverses from time to time.