Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 1. ocean floor sinks under a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle
- 5. chains of mountains that rise up from the floor of the ocean
- 8. transferring energy/heat through liquids
- 9. earths plates which meet at plate bounderies
- 11. volcanos similar to a belt mostly on the pacific ocean
- 13. heating and cooling of a liquid along with changes in the density with force of gravity makes this
- 14. transferring energy/heat through electromagnetic waves
- 16. earths lithosphere section that is broboundariesieces
- 17. molten material inside the mantle
- 18. remains of something from the past that is preserved
Down
- 2. how much mass is in an object
- 3. continents moving overtime due to the plates
- 4. area where material deep in the earth rises to the crust and melts, forming magma
- 6. ocean floor turning into deep underwater canyons
- 7. mid-ocean ridges adding new material to the floor of the ocean
- 10. a weak spot in earth's surface which allows magma from the mantle to rise
- 12. volcanos creating a string of volcanos
- 13. transferring energy/heat through a direct object or thing
- 15. continent from millions of years ago
- 19. magma that has risen to earth's surface