Plate Tectonics Vocaulary
Across
- 3. anything thrown into the air during a volcanic eruption
- 6. the eruption of molten rock (magma) onto the surface of a planet
- 8. places where plates slide sideways past each other
- 9. two tectonic plates move away from each other
- 11. a large plume of hot mantle material rising from deep within the earth
- 13. a large depression formed when a volcano erupts and collapses
- 14. sudden movement of the earth's lithosphere
- 15. the mostly solid bulk of earth's interior
Down
- 1. is slid and 90% iron
- 2. comes out of a volcano
- 4. a mixture of molten and semi-molten rock found beneath the surface of the earth
- 5. two plates comes together
- 7. abroad runded volcano that is built up by successive outpourings of very fluid lava
- 10. a dip-slip fault in which the block above the fault has moved downward relative to the block below
- 12. the part of the earth's crust that makes up the seafloor