Geology unit 3
Across
- 2. When a denser plate descends into the mantle at the same rate as seafloor production
- 7. Mountain formed by subduction of oceanic lithosphere beneath a continent
- 10. boundary in which two plates slide past each other
- 12. a continuous elevated zone on the floor of all major ocean basins
- 14. processes that deform Earth’s crust to create major structural features
- 15. Formed from transform boundaries
- 18. Volcanic islands created by subduction of one oceanic plate under another
- 19. boundary in which two plates move apart
- 20. hypothesis suggesting new oceanic crust is created at the crests of mid ocean ridges
Down
- 1. boundary in which two plates move together
- 3. The primary source of plate movement
- 4. The largest tectonic plate
- 5. Supercontinent containing all of the existing continents
- 6. The place where convection takes place in the earth
- 8. Suggests that all present continents once existed as a supercontinent
- 9. Came up with the continental drift theory
- 11. Age of lithosphere that results in a high angle of decent/deep trench
- 13. Common disaster at or near faults
- 16. Age of lithosphere that results in a low angle of decent/shallow trench
- 17. narrow, elongated depression of the seafloor