Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle, By: Jessie Cooper and Morgan Ferqueron
Across
- 2. layer of the earth
- 4. plate boundaries/ where most volcanoes occur
- 5. word for plate tectonics
- 8. force
- 11. core/ liquid layer of earth's core
- 13. Boundary/Where two plates push against each other
- 14. spreading/the process in which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises towards the surface and solidifies.
- 15. landmass of all of today's continents combined
- 16. Boundary/boundary where two plates move away from each other
- 17. force
Down
- 1. of mantle rock that flows slowly and allows tectonic plates to float on top of it\
- 3. tectonics/the theory that explains how large pieces of earth's outermost layer called tectonic plates move and change shape
- 6. outermost layer made of the crust and the top part of the mantle
- 7. crust/ earth's crust located under the ocean
- 8. crust/surface above sea level that composes earth's continents
- 9. break in earth's crust
- 10. core/solid dense center of the earth
- 12. fold in the rock layers due to stress
- 17. boundary/boundary where two plates slide past each other