Plate Tectonics Crossword
Across
- 3. Where tectonic plates converge, the one with thin oceanic crust subducts beneath the one capped by thick continental crust
- 5. the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations
- 6. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle
- 9. this occurs when plates move towards each other and collide to form mountains
- 10. When two tectonic plates move away from each other
Down
- 1. The theory that explains how large pieces of the lithosphere called plates, move and change shape
- 2. when two tectonic plates slide sideways past each other that cause earthquakes
- 4. a geologic process in which tectonic plates—large slabs of Earth's lithosphere—split apart from each other
- 7. A region deep within the Earth's mantle from which heat rises through the process of convection
- 8. supercontinents that formed 300 mya and began to break up beginning 250 mya