Land Changing Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
  2. 8. The highest mountain in the world, formed by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates.
  3. 9. The thick layer of hot, semi-melted rock located between the crust and the core.
  4. 10. The process of heat transfer in the mantle that drives plate movement.
  5. 12. The extremely hot, dense center of the Earth.
  6. 15. A prehistoric reptile whose fossils were found on multiple continents, providing evidence for continental drift.
  7. 16. The outermost, thinnest layer of the Earth.
Down
  1. 1. A type of plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
  2. 2. The ancient supercontinent that existed roughly 300 million years ago.
  3. 3. Molten rock
  4. 5. An opening in the crust through which lava, ash, and gases erupt.
  5. 6. Plate Large section of the earths crust
  6. 7. A fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock.
  7. 11. A plate boundary where two plates slide past one another horizontally.
  8. 13. A sudden shaking of the ground caused by the release of energy in the crust.
  9. 14. The general term for the border where two tectonic plates meet.