Plate Tectonics Vocabulary
Across
- 3. Solid iorn rich zone in the Earth
- 5. A scientific theory that explains how
- 6. landforms were created
- 7. Plates pushing together
- 9. Heat curents in the magma causes a
- 11. Plates sliping side by side
- 14. Solid rockey layer in the Earth
- 16. What rises from the hot spots in the
- 18. The solid outer part of the Earth
- 20. of the Earth's crust
- 21. A large scale processes affecting the
- 22. to push through
- 23. The lighter outer skin of the Earth
- 24. The molten metallic layer of the
- 27. The hypothesis that the Earth's
Down
- 1. plate and slides beneath
- 2. When an oceanic plate runs into a
- 4. A ring of volcanos
- 8. have moved
- 10. When all of Earth's landmasses
- 12. The relatively thin partof the Earth's
- 13. A device that can monitor the Earth's
- 15. of the crust, while lava is
- 17. The upper layer of the Earth's mantle
- 19. Plates pulling apart
- 25. which underlies the ocean basins
- 26. A natural feature of the Earth's
- 27. together to form one