Plate Tectonic Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. A deep spot in the ocean caused by subduction
- 6. The process of one plate moving beneath the other
- 7. A rigid layer that includes the earths crust/upper mantle
- 9. Formed by collisions between plates of continental crust
- 11. The name of a subduction zone that Vancouver lies within it
- 12. The continental crust is made of this rock
- 13. There are 3 types of these, convergent, divergent and transform
- 14. The soft layer just below the lithosphere
- 15. A natural disaster caused by movements of the tectonic plates
- 18. A destructive event that results from geological processes
- 19. pull Pulling of tectonic plate due to gravity/subduction
- 20. The founding father of plate tectonics
Down
- 1. The starting point of diverging plates
- 3. An usually hot place where island chains such as Hawaii can form
- 4. The solid material beneath the asthenosphere
- 5. A supercontinent that was formed in 270,000,000 BCE
- 8. An opening in the earths surface where magma is released
- 10. The pieces that make up the earth's crust
- 16. Also known as a titlewave
- 17. Its nearly 3000km thick