Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 1. Rising magma pushing ends of plates up and apart (2 words)
- 6. Landform created when continental plates separate (2 words)
- 11. Type of crust that is more dense and younger
- 13. Landform created when 2 oceanic plates collide (3 words)
- 16. Landform created when 2 continental plates collide (2 words)
- 18. First person to suggest the existence of Pangaea (2 words)
- 19. Source of thermal energy for convection currents in the mantle
- 20. Movement that occurs in the mantle and moves the plates (2 words)
- 21. Boundary where two plates collide
- 22. Border where two plates interact
- 23. Continental plates do not subduct because they are less __ than oceanic plates
Down
- 2. Sinking end of plate pulling remaining plate into mantle (2 words)
- 3. Where new oceanic crust forms (3 words)
- 4. Area where one plate sinks under another plate (2 words)
- 5. Type of crust that is less dense and thicker
- 7. Giant chunks of Earth's crust (2 words)
- 8. Boundary where two plates divide
- 9. Boundary where two plates slide
- 10. Landform created when 2 plates slide alongside of each other
- 12. Occur at ALL types of plate boundaries (Can be deep or shallow)
- 14. When oceanic plates collide, what determines which subducts?
- 15. Thinnest and outermost layer of Earth
- 17. Deep landform created by a subducting plate