Geology and Plate Tectonics
Across
- 4. Type of crust that is made up of granite.
- 5. The result of the continental and oceanic crusts meeting.
- 8. What is inside the mantle.
- 12. Where the tectonic plates are located.
- 13. The pulling apart of the sea floor at the ridge.
- 14. Two plates sliding side-by-side.
- 15. Where new rocks form from rising magma.
- 16. ________ created the first proposed rock cycle.
- 18. The dividing or pulling apart of plates.
- 20. Type of crust that is made up of basalt.
Down
- 1. A new form of technology that bounced sound waves off of the ocean floor.
- 2. What is outside of the mantle.
- 3. The force that derives plate movement.
- 6. The coming or pushing together of plates.
- 7. Discovered the process called sea-floor spreading.
- 9. The supercontinent that was theorized by Alfred Wegener.
- 10. An area where a lot of subduction activity occurs.
- 11. The study of the Earth and the forces that change the shape of the Earth.
- 17. The process of one plate sliding below the other.
- 19. A well researched idea or thought that has not been proven a fact.