Plate Tectonics
Across
- 1. solid material that is moved to a new location
- 2. A displacement of rock
- 7. Where one plate slides under another
- 8. Plates going towards each other
- 9. Process that turns any rock into magma
- 11. Breaking apart due to faulting
- 12. where two or more plates meet
- 13. Liquified rock that is underground
- 14. naturally occurring elements or compounds
- 16. Earths outerlayer divided into plates
- 17. The thick part of the Earth's crust that forms large landmasses
Down
- 1. The formation of new oceanic crust
- 3. Plates rubbing against each other
- 4. Plates moving away from each other
- 5. movement of continents spreading apart from each other
- 6. a giant supercontinent
- 7. A zone formed by the boundary between two tectonic plates
- 8. hardens magma and turns it into igneous rock
- 10. Molten rock that breaks through Earth's surface
- 15. The rigid outer part of the Earth