Plate Tectonics
Across
- 7. Boundary Where plates are sliding parallel to each other, but in opposite directions
- 9. Trench A deep channel in the ocean floor where crust is sinking down
- 10. A zone where Earth's crust and mantle are being pulled apart
- 11. mountain Mountains formed by crust crumpling upwards as plates collide
- 14. A layer of plastic in the lower mantle
- 15. An instrument that detects the seismic waves form an earthquake
- 17. Wave A longitudinal seismic wave that that travels fast through earth
- 18. Name for the crust and the upper mantle together; Earth's tectonic plates
- 19. When one plate sinks below another during a collision
- 20. Drift The separating of continents
Down
- 1. A huge wave caused by an earthquake on the sea floor
- 2. The centre of Earth
- 3. The rapid movement of the ground,usually back and forth and up and down in a wave motion, due to the movement of tectonic plates
- 4. Layer beneath Earth's crust
- 5. The focus or middle point of an earthquake
- 6. Earth's outermost solid layer
- 8. Push Older crust is pushed below new ocean crust and squeezes the plates sideways
- 12. A place where extremely hot material from inside Earth erupts at the surface
- 13. Spreading Process of new crust forming at the ocean ridge and spreading
- 16. Plate Section of Earth's crust that moves about on earth's surface