Plate Tectonics
Across
- 3. An area where oceanic crust is moving in opposite directions
- 4. Violent shaking of the ground
- 7. Fracture in the crust
- 9. The rising of hot, less dense material and sinking of cooler, denser material
- 10. Large crust section that moves as one piece
- 11. Molten rock that flows beneath Earth's surface.
- 13. Formation of mountains
- 15. When one plate sinks below another
- 16. Where two plates move apart
Down
- 1. When material is added to a tectonic plate
- 2. Theory that explains how plates move
- 5. Where continental crust is moving in opposite directions
- 6. A brake in the crust through which magma escapes
- 8. Molten rock flowing on earths surface
- 12. Where two or more plates move toward each other
- 14. The place where two tectonic plates interact