Plate tectonics & the structure of ocean basins
Across
- 3. A scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of the earths subterranean movements
- 5. A fine-grained, deep-sea mud made mostly of shells of dead, microscopic marine organisms
- 8. A split or a break
- 10. Sediments that come from the land
Down
- 1. The wearing down or breaking of rocks while they are in place
- 2. Small fossilized remains of organisms, often preserved in association with clay minerals
- 4. Process where one tectonic plate slide beneath another and sinks into the earth’s mantle
- 6. The movement of continents resulting from the motion of tectonic plates
- 7. A fracture or zone of weakness in the earths crust where movement occurs between two blocks of rock
- 9. A deep and narrow hole, or ditch in the ground