Plate Tectonics Earth Systems Vocabulary
Across
- 2. The Broken up pieces of the lithosphere
- 6. Boundary between 2 plates moving away from each other (separate, divide)
- 7. Places where tectonic plates meet.
- 8. Theory explaining how tectonic plates move and change shape.
- 10. Ring of volcanoes around the pacific plate
- 11. Process of new oceanic crust forming as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies
Down
- 1. Occurs when 2 tectonic plates collide, and one plate moves under the other and sinks into the mantle
- 3. Boundary formed by collision of 2 plates (collide, crash, collision)
- 4. Boundary between 2 plates that are scraping past each other (slide,scrape)
- 5. The landmass that existed when all continents were joined together
- 9. Hypothesis that the continents once formed a single land mass, broke up, and drifted to their present location.