Marine Vocab
Across
- 3. as ocean plates move down they pull the plates down
- 4. the flat ocean floor
- 10. the theory that the continents were all together at one point
- 13. a coral reef that is directly attached to an island or shoreline
- 14. when one plates slides under another plates
- 16. heat from the center of the Earth rises and cools then falls, moving the plates
- 17. 2 plates moving away from each other
Down
- 1. openings in the ocean floor where superheated, chemically active escapes upwards
- 2. hills on the deep ocean floor that are less then 1000m high
- 5. reefs that form around a volcanic island and as the island erodes away the reefs grows upwards and forms a ring
- 6. a valley that forms when two plates separate and the land sinks between the two plates
- 7. underwater mountain ranges
- 8. as new plate material forms, it pushes the plate
- 9. narrow, steep-sided valley
- 11. 2 plates sliding past each other
- 12. 2 plates moving towards each other
- 15. a reef that runs parallel to the shoreline and are separated from the land by deep water