Plate Tectonics
Across
- 3. Tectonic plates move
- 9. Liquified hot rock
- 12. Sediments being moved away by wind or water
- 13. Super-continent from 250M years ago
- 14. Plates moving apart
- 17. Mountain range cause by Indian and Eurasian plate colliding
- 19. Outermost layer of Earth
- 21. A deep cavern formed next to oceanic subduction zones
- 23. ______________ plates
- 25. Rocks made in volcanoes
- 29. An opening between two diverging oceanic plates
- 30. State of matter of the inner core
- 32. Ground shaking
- 34. How heat moves through a fluid
- 35. A large land mass
- 36. Plates coming together
Down
- 1. Rocks changed by heat and pressure
- 2. Largest continental plate
- 4. Person who first suggested tectonic plate theory
- 5. Plate subducting under South America
- 6. Giant wave caused by earthquakes
- 7. Deepest part of the Pacific Ocean
- 8. Biological specimen preserved in rock
- 10. Plates sliding pat each other
- 11. Molten rock escapes the Earth here
- 15. Geographic location of an Earthquake
- 16. Layer between the core and crust
- 18. Continental _________
- 20. Area around the pacific
- 22. ________ valley. Occurs when two continental plates diverge.
- 24. Rocks formed in layers
- 26. Thinner, denser crust
- 27. Process of one plate sinking under another
- 28. Where two plates meet
- 31. Rocks being broken down by natural forces
- 33. Type of volcano on middle of a plate