Plate Tectonics
Across
- 2. where plates have pushed together
- 4. the amount of force on a unit
- 6. mountains formed when rocks are pushed together
- 7. mountains formed when there are many faults
- 8. causes land to rise
- 10. oldest layers of rock are pushed upward
- 11. when rock breaks
- 13. when magma rises through cracks in plates
- 19. large area of land made up of plates
- 20. when a dense plate meets a less dense plate
Down
- 1. when force cause plates to shake
- 3. what makes up plate tectonics
- 5. mountains form from melted rock
- 9. when rocks change under stress
- 12. currents that slowly move continents
- 14. youngest layers of rock are pushed downward
- 15. near subduction zone
- 16. areas on Earth where hot plumes of magma rise
- 17. when rock bends
- 18. first person to suggest continental drift