Plate Tectonics
Across
- 3. An opening in the earth where magma and hot steam can rise up.
- 5. The type of boundary that occurs when two plates pull away from each other.
- 6. The type of crust underneath continents.
- 7. A type of boundary where two plates brush back and forth against each other.
- 8. The thickest layer of the earth.
- 10. It contains convection currents.
- 12. The type of crust underneath the ocean.
- 14. The liquid layer of the earth.
- 15. The type of boundary that occurs when two plates push toward each other.
- 16. The most dense layer of the earth, composed of iron and nickel.
Down
- 1. When one plate moves underneath another plate.
- 2. The theory created by Alfred Wegener that say the earth has plates that move across the mantle.
- 4. Made up of the upper mantle and the crust.
- 9. A supercontinent that existed before the world looked the way it does today.
- 11. One of the effects from a transform boundary.
- 13. The outermost and thinnest layer of the earth.