Jonas's Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. This Earth-shaking event occurs when a transform boundary releases energy.
- 3. This forms when subduction occurs, along with volcanoes.
- 4. This scientist's idea of plate tectonics was rejected.
- 7. a plate boundary where two or more plates are pulling apart from each other.
- 8. This was a supercontinent that was made of every continent, but they were all one landmass.
- 9. This is a plate boundary where two or more plates slide past each other.
- 11. The materials or elements in which each layer is composed.
- 16. This occurs when an oceanic plate and a continental plate push against each other.
- 17. This is the only layer of Earth that is liquid.
- 20. This occurs at a mid ocean ridge, and it produces new oceanic crust.
- 21. This layer of Earth contains the crust and part of the mantle, and it is broken up into many pieces.
- 22. The thickest layer of Earth, made mostly of compressed stone.
- 24. This layer has the convection currents.
- 27. This person discovered the mid-Atlantic ridge by drawing very detailed maps of the ocean's profile.
Down
- 1. This happens when Earth's magnetic field switches.
- 5. A plate boundary where two or more tectonic plates are pushing against each other.
- 6. Oceanic plates are made of this rock.
- 10. Liquified igneous rock.
- 12. The idea that the lithosphere is broken up into many slowly moving tectonic plates.
- 13. This forms when two oceanic plates pull apart from each other.
- 14. The way in which the layers behave due to pressure and heat.
- 15. The most hot, dense, and innermost layer of Earth.
- 18. An iron rich mineral found in igneous and sedimentary rocks.
- 19. The study of Earth's polarity.
- 23. Continental crust is mostly made of this rock.
- 25. These waves help people find out the composition of the Earth.
- 26. The most outer layer of Earth.