Plate Tectonics Vocabulary Review
Across
- 5. type of plate boundary where two plates collide
- 7. occur at a transform boundary involving two continental crust causing the ground to shake
- 9. landform created when two continental crusts collide at a convergent boundary
- 11. heat transfer in which heat rises and cold sinks(this is what moves tectonic plates)
- 12. landform created when an oceanic crust collides with continental crust at a convergent boundary
- 13. the layer of the Earth where heat for convection currents is made
- 14. layer of the Earth where convection currents are happening
- 17. type of boundary where two plates are moving away from each other
- 18. a huge and devasting wave that occurs at transform boundaries involving two oceanic crust sliding past each other
- 19. thicker crust with a lower density that is covered in land
Down
- 1. landform created from two ocean crust being pulled apart at a divergent boundary
- 2. thinner crust with a higher density and covered by the ocean
- 3. the name of the event where new ocean crust is formed
- 4. when oceanic plates slide underneath anotherand are destroyed in the mantle
- 6. landform created when an oceanic crust collides with oceanic crust at a convergent boundary
- 8. the Earth's crust is broken into pieces called
- 10. where two plates meet
- 15. landform created when two continental crust a being pulled apart at a divergent boundary
- 16. type of boundary where two plates slide past one another