Plate Tectonics Crossword
Across
- 1. The border between two plates
- 5. The earth is made up of 13-20 ______
- 6. Made up of crust and a little bit of the upper mantle
- 10. This may occur as a result of two plates sliding against each other
- 13. Boundary where two plates move towards each other
- 16. The continent that is believed to have once fit into South America
- 17. The creator of the Continental Drift theory's first name
- 18. ________ spreading.The process that forms new ocean floor and oceanic spreading.
- 19. When a plate slides under another
- 20. Boundary where two plates slide against each other
Down
- 2. Boundary where two plates move away from each other
- 3. A crack in a plate
- 4. The outermost shell of the Earth
- 7. Part of the plate where earthquakes occur
- 8. The super-continent in the Continental Drift theory
- 9. The layer of Earth between the core and the crust.
- 11. This is formed by one plate sliding under the other
- 12. A type of evidence that points to the theory being true
- 14. Most plates are made up of continents and some _____
- 15. Alfred Wagner suggested that continents were ________