Plate Tectonics

123456789101112
Across
  1. 2. The topmost solid part of Earth. Made up of several different plates. Plates usually contain both oceanic and continental crust.
  2. 5. What type of stress occurs at convergent boundaries?
  3. 8. Plates are part of Earth’s crust that are _________ shaped and moving
  4. 9. As the plates are sliding past each other at transform boundaries, what occurs?
  5. 10. What type of stress occurs at divergent boundaries?
  6. 11. The super land mass. How the continents looked 200 million years ago
  7. 12. The word that refers to the branch of geology that deals with the movements that shape Earth’s crust
Down
  1. 1. These boundaries are called constructive boundaries.
  2. 3. When plates come together (or converge) at the trenches, they form a _______ boundary
  3. 4. No new plate material is made and no plate material is destroyed at these boundaries
  4. 6. Plates fit together like a...
  5. 7. What kind of stress occurs at transform boundaries?