Plate Tectonics Crossword
Across
- 2. large-scale processes affecting the structure of the earth's crust
- 3. one plate slides beneath the other plate
- 7. a large circular planet with a lot of living environments
- 8. a broad zone forming as the Pacific Plate slides northwestward past the North American Plate microplates small mostly rigid areas of lithosphere
- 9. a scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements.
Down
- 1. plates that are less than 20 million square kilometers in the area but are larger than one million square kilometers
- 4. an area on Earth where two or more lithospheric plates collide
- 5. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
- 6. a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other