Minerals and Plate Tectonic Review
Across
- 5. came up with the idea of continental drift
- 8. units used to measure plate movement in a year
- 10. igneous rock formed on the surface
- 11. changed by huge heat and pressure
- 14. hardest mineral
- 15. a pure substance with a crystal structure
- 17. where two plates meet
- 18. movement of sediments
- 19. layer of earth we live on
- 20. plates sliding past
- 21. the single big continent of the past
- 22. plates moving apart
Down
- 1. layer below the crust
- 2. plates coming together
- 3. break down of rock
- 4. weathering from ice
- 6. identified by layers and fossils
- 7. formed from cooled magma or lava
- 8. currents that drive plate movement
- 9. breaks along smooth planes
- 12. solid ball of iron
- 13. deepest one is off the coast of Japan
- 16. how shiney a mineral is
- 23. made of more than one mineral