Plate Tectonics: Pick a Project
Across
- 1. how many plate boundaries are there.
- 3. geological theory that states that pieces of the Earth's lithosphere are constant, slow motion.
- 4. a well-tested concept that explains a wide range of observations.
- 7. where 2 plates come together.
- 11. SUPERcontinent.
- 12. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action
Down
- 1. a place where 2 plates slip past each other, moving opposite directions.
- 2. when 2 plates carrying oceanic crust meet at a trench, the plate that is less dense dives under the other plate and returns to the mantle.
- 3. Earth's lithosphere is broken into separate sections.
- 5. breaks in the Earth's crust.
- 6. A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are or have been erupted from the earth's crust
- 7. Heat is transferred from 1 particle of matter to another w/o movement of the matter itself.
- 8. a deep valley on land that forms along a divergent boundary.
- 9. where 2 plates move apart.
- 10. The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.