Plate Tectonics
Across
- 2. A single landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago
- 4. Transfer of heat between a material
- 5. The transfer of heat by movement of a fluid
- 6. vibrations that carry the energy released in an earthquake
- 8. Rigid layer made up of the upper part of the mantle and crust
- 13. Valley that forms where plates move apart.
- 14. Transfer of heat through space
- 16. sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary
- 17. A trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in a rock
- 19. Layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of Earth
- 20. A break in Earth's crust where masses of rock slip past each other
Down
- 1. A section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the
- 3. carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust
- 7. A dense sphere of iron and nickel at the middle of earth
- 9. The process by which oceanic
- 10. A device that determines the distance of an object under water by recording echos of sound waves
- 11. Layer of hot,solid material between Earth's crust and core
- 12. Hypothesized that Earths continents moved
- 15. The amount in a given space
- 18. force pressing on an area