Plate Tectonics Vocabulary Review
Across
- 2. This is the area where you will find most of the volcanoes in the world
- 4. Type of boundary where two plates separate
- 5. This mountain range that stretches along the Atlantic Ocean was created by a new crust from a divergent boundary
- 6. This is where two tectonic plates meet
- 7. This natural disaster, along with volcanoes, can cause a tsunami
- 9. Large chunks of lithosphere that gradually move
- 14. The 750-mile long fault in California that is created by a transform boundary
- 16. The prehistoric conglomerate of the 7 continents all combined
- 18. This is how scientists track movements of tectonic plates
- 20. This process creates new crust in the ocean
- 22. Process where one plate moves below another plate
- 23. An area in the Earth’s mantle that is unusually hot
Down
- 1. The theory that plates slowly move the continents over time
- 3. Type of boundary where two plates collide
- 5. Lava that is below the Earth’s surface
- 8. Layer of the earth that represents the crust
- 10. The largest tectonic plate
- 11. The deepest part of the ocean floor
- 12. The scientist credited for the Continental Drift theory
- 13. Type of boundary where two plates slide past each other
- 15. This is the type of rock that is created at a ridge
- 17. This is created in the ocean when subduction occurs
- 19. Layer of the earth that contains magma
- 21. The mountain range in Colorado that is created by a convergent boundary