Plate tectonics project crossword puzzle
Across
- 3. a continuous range of undersea volcanic mountains
- 9. upper layer of earths mantle
- 11. when two tectonic plates move away from each other
- 12. third layer of earth
- 13. the theory that all plates used to be connected but drifted away from each other over time
- 14. when two plates come together
- 15. the process by which the North pole is transformed into a South pole and the South pole becomes a North pole
Down
- 1. drive the movement of Earth's rigid tectonic plates in the planet's fluid molten mantle (think hot)
- 2. outer most layer of earth
- 4. crust and upper most-solid mantle
- 5. second layer of earth
- 6. an intensely hot area in the mantle below Earth's crust
- 7. center of earth
- 8. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate
- 10. places where plates slide sideways past each other