Plate Tectonics
Across
- 4. The theory of Earth's continents being all together and then splitting into several different continents.
- 6. The transfer of energy through space or air.
- 7. Beginning of the formation of new ocean floor.
- 10. The largest layer of Earth.
- 11. The thinnest layer of Earth.
- 12. Plate boundaries that move together.
- 14. The hottest layer of Earth.
- 16. The reason Earth's plates move.
- 17. Deep V-shaped valleys where subduction occurs.
- 18. The transfer of heat between two solid objects that are touching.
Down
- 1. Formed the longest mountain chain in the world.
- 2. The along which rocks break move.
- 3. Continental Drift led to this theory.
- 4. The transfer of heat by movement of particles in liquids.
- 5. Plate boundaries that move past each other, horizontally
- 8. The name of the ancient continent.
- 9. Proposed the theory of Continental Drift.
- 12. Where pressure increases inside the Earth
- 13. Plate boundaries that move apart.
- 15. The process of ocean crust diving under continental crust.