Plate Tectonics
Across
- 2. The layer of hot, solid material between Earth’s crust and core.
- 5. Boundary A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions.
- 8. The soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats.
- 13. The name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents.
- 14. Boundary A boundary where two plates move toward each other.
- 15. The layer of rock that forms Earth’s outer surface.
- 16. Current The movement of a fluid, caused by differences in temperature that transfer heat from one part of the fluid to another.
- 18. The measurement of how much mass of a substance is contained in a given volume.
- 19. Core A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of Earth.
Down
- 1. Boundary lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.
- 3. A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust.
- 4. Valleys A deep valley that forms where two plates move apart.
- 6. trenches: A deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle.
- 7. Drift: The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface
- 9. The process by which oceanic trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
- 10. Tectonics The theory that pieces of Earth's
- 11. The transfer of heat from one particle of matter to another.
- 12. The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
- 17. Core A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of Earth.