Plate Tectonics
Across
- 8. A gap between two plates on the seafloor at a divergent boundary
- 9. The outermost layer of Earth
- 10. Plate that makes up the seafloor
- 11. A feature formed at a subduction zone
- 12. A type of boundary commonly associated with faults
- 13. The name of the supercontinent theorized by Alfred Wegner
- 14. The scientist who created the theory of continental drift
Down
- 1. The theory that the continents were one supercontinent that drifted apart
- 2. A seafloor feature, divided into "black smokers" and "white smokers"
- 3. The revised version of Wegner's theory
- 4. Plate that makes up the continents
- 5. The type of boundary responsible for seafloor spreading
- 6. The process that creates new seafloor
- 7. A type of boundary where two plates move towards each other