Plate Tectonics and Seafloor Spreading
Across
- 3. Consists of the Earth's crust and upper mantle
- 8. Boundary that occurs when plates slide by each other and create faults or earthquakes
- 9. An underwater mountain system
- 12. The theory that the crust is divided into large plates called tectonic plates that slowly move on top of the mantle
- 15. A place where two tectonic plates move toward each other
Down
- 1. The name of the supercontinent
- 2. Evidence that proves continents were once connected
- 4. When new ocean crust forms at the ridges
- 5. Melted rock material beneath Earth's surface
- 6. The thin, solid, outermost layer of Earth
- 7. A place where two tectonic plates move away from each other
- 10. The solid layer of Earth between the crust and the core
- 11. A denser plate is pushed beneath a less dense plate when they converge
- 13. Where old oceanic crust goes that is destroyed
- 14. The denser crust