Plate Tectonics Crossword
Across
- 2. The combination of the continental drift and seafloor spreading theories
- 4. The process of forcing one tectonic plate under another
- 10. Alfred Wegener's theory
- 14. The result of sudden plate movement
- 15. The theory that proposes convection in the mantle as the means of moving tectonic plates
- 16. The outer part of Earth's crust composed of solid rock
Down
- 1. Similar ____ of plants and animals were found on continents separated by oceans
- 3. The Earth's magnetic is created by ____ in the outer core
- 5. The zone below the lithosphere, more "plastic" than the lithosphere thus easier to bend
- 6. S. America's east coast fits like a puzzle piece to this continent's West cost
- 7. Scratches in bedrock of neighboring continents were left by these
- 8. Places where new seafloor is being created
- 9. This type of plate boundary is where new seafloor is created
- 11. The deepest parts of the ocean
- 12. The most outer solid portion of the Earth
- 13. This is created when 2 continental plates converge