Plate tectonic menu crossword
Across
- 2. , a giant wave usually created by a earthquake beneath the ocean floor.
- 7. , first layer of the earth
- 9. plates moving toward each other
- 11. basin , areas that are below sea level
- 12. plates sliding past each other
- 13. second layer of earth
- 14. , the layer of hot, solid material between earths crust and core
- 15. , a weak spot in the crust where magma has come to the surface
- 19. Valley , long, narrow depression formed at divergent boundaries
- 20. , tee for the super continent which contained all the plates together
Down
- 1. , process in which two plates collide and the denser ocean plates descends below the other
- 3. , fourth layer of earth
- 4. core , last layer of earth
- 5. plates moving apart
- 6. , third layer of earth
- 8. Wegener , proposed the theory of the continental drift
- 10. crust , the portion of the earths crust that primarily contains granite
- 16. core , fifth layer of earth
- 17. crust , thinner, more dense, younger crust making ocean floor
- 18. , extremely deep areas in the ocean that are created by a subducting plate