Plate Tectonics
Across
- 4. area around the North Pole or the South Pole
- 6. a large land mass separated from other land masses by oceans
- 8. scientific study of the deformation of the rocks that make up the Earth's crust and the forces that produce such deformation.
- 11. a name for all sediment
- 13. the mostly solid bulk of Earth's interior.
- 14. separate different regions of Earth.
- 16. an area on Earth where two or more lithospheric plates collide.Plate
- 18. occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other.
- 19. the solid, outer part of Earth.
Down
- 1. a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock.
- 2. what happens when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another.
- 3. a central region in an economy, with good communications and high population density, which leads to its prosperity
- 5. preserved remains of plants and animals whose bodies were buried in sediments,
- 7. is the zone of the earth which lies beneath the lithosphere.
- 9. a super-continent that incorporated almost all the landmasses on Earth
- 10. the movement of particles through a substance,
- 12. a type of fault in which two tectonic plates slide past one another.
- 15. When magma flows onto Earth's surface
- 17. the outermost shell of a terrestrial planet.