Plate Tectonics & Features
Across
- 2. Theory proposing the existence of large plates in Earth's interior
- 3. Idea stating that continents drifted away from each other overtime
- 5. Hot underwater mounds that exist in deep ocean areas, formed by diverging plates
- 6. said to predate the existence of the continents known today
- 7. Deep, narrow depressions in the ocean floor
- 8. Plate made of oceanic crust
- 11. Process in which a denser plate sinks under another upon collision
- 12. Undersea mountain created by diverging plates
- 14. Boundary where two plates collide
Down
- 1. Process where the ocean floor grows due to divergent boundaries creating new crust
- 3. Plate made of continental crust
- 4. Boundary where two plates slide against each other
- 9. Part of Earth's interior where tectonic plates reside
- 10. Boundary where two plates split
- 13. Proposer of the Theory of Continental Drift