Plate Tectonics Crossword
Across
- 4. _______ shoot steam and water high into the air.
- 7. ________ are magma plumes, which push up from the outercore/mantle.
- 10. A ______________ is a pattern of volcanoes in a straight line due to the plate moving over a hotspot (ex: Hawaiian Islands).
- 13. What boundary is when the plates move away from each other?
- 14. _______ is a "super continent" created about 300 million years ago when all the continents were once connected.
- 15. The Australian and Pacific plates are an example of a __________ plate boundary.
Down
- 1. ___________ shake the ground and occur along plate boundaries & volcanoes.
- 2. The major discovery that was made by Alfred Wegener was called ________ spreading.
- 3. What boundary is when the plates move towards each other?
- 5. What layer of the Earth is made up of the upper mantle?
- 6. What flies into the upper atmosphere that can lead us to lack of supplies, warmth, and sunlight after a volcano has erupted?
- 8. What other than trenches do convergent boundary's create?
- 9. What boundary is when the plates move alongside each other?
- 11. Pillow ____ is a pillow shaped smooth rock formed from volcanoes in the ocean.
- 12. What layer of the Earth is made up of the crust and uppermost part of the mantle?