Plate Tectonics
Across
- 3. Plate boundary type where plates are sliding past one another
- 7. Theory that states the continents once formed a single land mass that separated (2 words)
- 10. Pacific, North American, African, Eurasian, South American...
- 11. Scientist who first proposed that the continents were moving (2 words)
- 12. Plate boundary type where plates are moving toward each other
- 13. Outermost rigid layer of the Earth
- 14. Where two continental plates collide; like the Himalayas
- 15. Highly active zone of volcanoes and earthquakes around the Pacific plate
- 16. Plate boundary type where plates are moving away from each other
Down
- 1. Zone where one plate goes under another when colliding
- 2. Process in the mantle that allows plates to move
- 4. Process where new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises to Earth's surface and forms the mid-ocean ridge (3 words)
- 5. Supercontinent that began to separate 250 mya
- 6. Where two continental plates separate; like in Africa
- 8. Process where supercontinents form and break apart over millions of years (2 words)
- 9. Where two plates separate, and form this under the ocean on the sea floor (3 words)