Plate Tectonics Test Review
Across
- 4. The place where two lithospheric plates interact
- 5. These volcanic islands formed due to a hot spot
- 6. These occur at every plate boundary
- 8. plate boundary where lithospheric plates slide against one another
- 9. Province with rolling hills underlain by mostly ancient igneous and metamorphic rocks
- 10. Province with coarse igneous and metamorphic rocks which are the oldest in the state
- 12. Oceanic crust sinks below continental crust because it is more ______
- 14. Pacific coastlines where the majority of the world's earthquakes and volcanoes are
Down
- 1. Province that provides the majority of the state's coal resources
- 2. In addition to the Crust, this layer of Earth is composed of solid material
- 3. Currents in the mantle that are responsible for the movement of lithospheric plates
- 7. Zone where one plate sinks below another due to relative density, returning to the mantle
- 11. Ocean crust the same distance on either side of the Mid-Ocean Ride is ________
- 13. plate boundary where new ocean crust is formed