Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. Trench, Long, narrow depressions on the sea floor
- 7. An area where an oceanic plate sinks down into the Asthenosphere
- 9. Volcano, Volcanoes along the shoreline, usually formed by convergent boundaries
- 11. A boundary between two colliding Tectonic Plates
- 12. Wegener, The scientist that came up with the theory of Continental Drift
- 13. A boundary that causes plates to slide past each other
- 16. A boundary where two Tectonic Plates move away from each other
- 17. A supercontinent
- 19. The rigid and outermost layer of the Earth
- 20. The center of the Earth
Down
- 1. Crust, The outer layer of the Earth's lithosphere
- 3. Mountains, Mountains that are formed by the effects of folding on layers
- 4. The Southern half of the Pangea that existed over 300 million years ago
- 5. Striation, Scratches that are lodged onto a piece of land due to Glaciers moving
- 6. The thinnest layer of the Earth
- 8. The layer of the Earth between the Crust and the Core
- 10. Caused by Convergent Boundaries, also occurs around fault lines
- 14. Ridge, A seafloor mountain system that can be formed by plate tectonics
- 15. Crust, The upper layer of the oceanic portion of a Tectonic Plate
- 18. Valley, A lowland region formed by plate tectonics