Plate tectonics crossword
Across
- 1. the study of the physics of the earth and its environment in space
- 2. the center of the earth
- 5. the process in which one plate collides with and is forced under another plate
- 6. the layer below the crust
- 8. something that erupts and lava comes out
- 11. the separation of plates
- 13. theory of earth's outer shell
- 15. a deep depression in the ocean floor caused by the convergence of plates and subduction of one plate
- 18. a fluid layer above the inner core and below the mantle
- 19. force on an object by something touching it
Down
- 1. a scientist who studies the solid, liquid, and gaseous matter that constitutes earth and other terrestrial planets
- 3. a sudden shaking of the ground
- 4. circle of volcanoes
- 7. an area of rock that has been bent by stress
- 9. the uppermost layer of the earth
- 10. the theory that the configuration of the earth's continents was once different
- 12. it is the molten version of rock
- 14. the transfer of heat caused by molecular motion in liquid or gas
- 16. above the core
- 17. an area of fracturing between rocks