Plate Tectonic
Across
- 4. A break in the Earth's crust
- 7. The supercontinent included almost all landmasses on earth in early geologic time
- 8. New lithosphere is created
- 10. The main landmasses on Earth
- 13. Person who proposed the theory of continental drift
- 15. When tectonic plates push away from each other
- 16. A tool used to measure earthquakes
- 17. a process that causes the plates to move
- 18. The theory that the Earth's continents have moved over time
Down
- 1. A natural occurrence caused by the moving of tectonic plates
- 2. Caused by plates colliding with each other
- 3. The area where subduction occurs
- 5. The center of an earthquake
- 6. Caused by transform boundaries sliding past each other
- 9. A bend in a rock due to stress
- 11. When tectonic plates slide past each other
- 12. A valley that forms at the edge of a continent
- 14. When tectonic plates collide with each other
- 17. Outermost layer of the Earth