Parker Ellis' Dynamic Earth Vocabulary
Across
- 1. the theory that states that the plates are in slow constant motion
- 3. when earths magnetic field flips it is called a
- 5. what earthquakes produce.
- 9. a molten mixture of rock, gases, and water
- 10. the rock below the crust that is a hot layer of rock and 3000 kilometers thick
- 14. The theory Alfred Wegener proposed about how the continents move
- 15. The person who made the theory of continental drift
- 17. A rapid shaking made by the moving in bursts along a transform boundary
- 18. feature of Divergent boundaries on land
- 19. when a more dense plate goes under a less dense plate
- 21. the crust and upper mantle broken up into pieces
- 22. a layer of molten metal surrounding the inner core
- 23. the plates slip past each other at this boundary
- 24. a dense ball of sold metal in the center of the earth
- 25. a type of crust made from granite
Down
- 2. a type of crust made of dense basalt
- 4. the rock that forms earths outer layer
- 6. a long chain of undersea mountains
- 7. a dark iron rich igneous rock
- 8. the study of earths magnetic polarity
- 11. when hot material goes up cools then goes back down in earths mantle driving motion
- 12. the plates move apart at this boundary
- 13. the plates move toward each other at this boundary
- 16. in this process molten rock flows through a crack in earths crust and hardens on both sides of the crack
- 20. undersea valleys that that are in the deepest parts of the ocean