Plate Tectonics
Across
- 3. Plates are part of Earth’s crust that are _________ shaped and moving
- 4. These boundaries are called constructive boundaries.
- 5. The super land mass. How the continents looked 200 million years ago
- 6. What kind of stress occurs at transform boundaries?
- 7. When plates come together (or converge) at the trenches, they form a _______ boundary
- 9. The word that refers to the branch of geology that deals with the movements that shape Earth’s crust
- 11. Plates fit together like a...
- 12. No new plate material is made and no plate material is destroyed at these boundaries
Down
- 1. As the plates are sliding past each other at transform boundaries, what occurs?
- 2. The topmost solid part of Earth. Made up of several different plates. Plates usually contain both oceanic and continental crust.
- 8. What type of stress occurs at convergent boundaries?
- 10. What type of stress occurs at divergent boundaries