Plate Tectonics Crossword
Across
- 2. primary wave
- 5. forms at a divergent and a subduction zone
- 6. plates move apart
- 8. The middle layer of the Earth
- 9. interruptions that cut through the rock; the interruption is younger than the rock it is cutting into
- 15. made up of the crust and uppermost mantle
- 16. A portion of the mantle which underlies the lithosphere
- 17. plates slide past each other
- 19. The idea that the continents move
- 20. The sequence of rocks that the oldest go to the bottom and the youngest go on the top
Down
- 1. Ring of Fire
- 2. A theory that states that the Earth's lithosphere is broken into plates that movie over the crust and upper mantle of the Earth
- 3. When the crust is recycled into the Earth's mantle
- 4. A proposed " super-continent"
- 7. Is an example of a transform boundary
- 10. Sedimentary rocks that are horizontal when originally distributed
- 11. secondary wave
- 12. The actual plates that move across the Earth
- 13. Mostly occur at Transform boundaries
- 14. The man who had the theory of Continental Drift
- 18. Result of a convergent boundary