plate tectonics
Across
- 3. a place where two tectonic plates slide past each other
- 6. a huge piece of crust that slowly moves on the upper , ductile part of the mantle
- 7. the theory that the continents were once connected but drifted apart
- 8. A place where two tectonics plates move tpward each other and collide
- 9. the process in which a denser plate is pushed downward beneath a less dence plated when they converge
- 10. a depression of earth's surface in which an ocean lies
Down
- 1. a place where two tectonic plates move away from each other
- 2. a law that says that younfer rock layer sit on top of older rock layer
- 4. trench deep and narrow depression in the seafloor where the subducted plate moves into the asthenosphere
- 5. an event in which molten rock spews out from the mantle to the surface of earth as ash, lava, and gases