Plate tectonics puzzle
Across
- 3. When two plates move away from each other
- 6. Man who came up with plate tectonics
- 8. What makes volcanos in the middle of tectonic plates
- 12. When two plates converge on each other
- 13. Large wave made by sea earthquakes
- 14. What made the Hawaiian islands
- 15. Superheated ball of iron and nickel
- 18. Where sea floor is destroyed
- 19. When plates grind, then slip past one another
- 20. Supercontinent
Down
- 1. Layer of liquid metal
- 2. Showed evidence of continental drift
- 4. When two plates move side to side in opposite directions
- 5. Thin layer of cooled rock
- 7. How strong an earthquake is
- 9. When new sea floor is made and destroyed
- 10. An sudden explosion that releases ash and lava from a volcano
- 11. What moves the plates
- 16. Where convection currents are
- 17. Crack where magma seeps through