Owen’s Plate Tectonics Crossword
Across
- 3. 2 plates moving apart
- 4. Plates under the ocean
- 6. The theory that continents were once joined together in a single landmass and have since drifted apart.
- 8. Where the less dense plate slides under the mor dense plate
- 9. Hot magma rises to the surface then cools and falls back down to the core
- 15. An underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics where new oceanic crust is created through volcanic activity
- 16. The denser layer below the Lithosphere
- 18. Parts of the earth that come up and create large masses of land
- 19. 2 plates merging together
- 20. what comes out of a volcano
Down
- 1. Plates under the continents
- 2. The deepest points in the ocean
- 5. Boundary between 2 plates sliding past each other which causes…
- 7. The Earths upper mantle and crust
- 10. Lava comes from a certain mountain with a big hole on top
- 11. A linear-shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges created by the action of a divergent boundary
- 12. Cracks in the earth's crust along which there is movement
- 13. 2 plates sliding against each other and creates friction
- 14. The broken up lithosphere, moving around and shifting
- 17. 2 oceanic plates moving apart