Plate Tectonics
Across
- 2. string of volcanoes, or seismic activity around the edges of the pacific ocean
- 3. result of plates releasing stress
- 5. A crack or fracture in Earth's crust where two tectonic plates grind past each other in a horizontal
- 6. result of magma from the earth making its way to the surface
- 8. Plates that come together
- 13. Plate located under South America
- 15. theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust
- 17. plate located under North America
- 18. The name given to the supercontinent that existed more than 225 million years ago, in which the present day continents were joined together
- 19. Melted rock beneath the Earth's surface
Down
- 1. Plates that spread apart
- 3. Plate located under Europe and Asia
- 4. Plate located under Africa
- 7. outer most layer of the Earth
- 9. symbolizes the edge of the plates
- 10. plate located under the pacific ocean
- 11. Plate located under India and Oceania
- 12. part of the earth's crust that moves
- 14. big wave because of release of energy in the earth's crust
- 16. melted rock on the Earth's surface