Plate Tectonics Vocab
Across
- 1. molten rock in the Earth's crust
- 5. regions of Earth where living organisms exist
- 11. to use again after processing
- 13. linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart
- 16. relating to ocean depths from 2000-5000 meters
- 17. having undergone transformation by heat/pressure
- 18. stack of originally linear surfaces that are bent or curved during permanent deformation
- 20. oceanic lithosphere and continental recycle into Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries
Down
- 2. chemistry of Earth's crust
- 3. solid outer part of Earth that includes crust and upper mantle
- 4. slowly flowing layer of solid and melted rock formed by heat and pressure; lithosphere floats on this
- 6. outermost solid shell of a planet
- 7. bottom of sea or ocean
- 8. of or relating to the earliest known rocks formed during the PreCambrian Eon
- 9. geologist who uses physical principles to study properties of the Earth
- 10. subject to or caused by an earthquake or earth vibration
- 12. innermost geological layer
- 14. process of covering the earth with masses of ice
- 15. branch of geology studying folding and faulting of Earth's crust
- 19. part of a rock formation that appears above the surface