Plate Tectonics Crossword
Across
- 2. the direction magnetic objects point in reversed polarity
- 4. what forms above the subducting plate
- 7. where seafloor spreading occurs
- 8. what occurs when two plates slide past each other
- 11. what forms where two plates collide
- 14. the process where a dense plate sinks under another
- 15. the scientist that suggested plate tectonics
- 16. rising mantle creates the potential for plates to move away from the ridge
- 18. the direction magnetic objects point in normal polarity
Down
- 1. the type of convergent plate boundary that causes volcanoes
- 2. when a sinking slab pulls the rest of the plate
- 3. the circulation of material caused by differences in temperature and density
- 5. what forms where two plates seperate
- 6. what states that earth's surface is made of plates that move
- 9. what occurs when the magnetic field reverses
- 10. the cold and rigid outermost rock layer
- 11. the theory that suggests the continents are constantly moving
- 12. the layer under the lithosphere
- 13. the name of the smallest plate
- 17. the theory of all continents joined as one