Plate Tectonics
Across
- 2. the temperature of older crust is ______ than newer crust.
- 5. when the mid-ocean ridge adds more sea floor.
- 7. new crust is ____ ______ than old crust.
- 8. a system for the detection of objects under water and for measuring the water's depth by radiating waves is called a?
- 9. older crust is ____ _____ than newer crust.
- 10. pieces separated by cracks.
- 14. when plates move away from each other.
- 15. when the ocean floor goes into a canyon, what are the canyons called?
- 16. peices of Earth’s crust diverge on land.
- 18. the name of the most popular supercontinent.
- 19. When continents moved slowly over Earth's surface is called?
Down
- 1. the remains of a historic thing molded in a form or as a mold in rock?
- 3. a scientist who discovered pangea
- 4. when plates slide on top or past each other.
- 6. Where the ocean spreads.
- 8. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate is called what?
- 11. when plates come together.
- 12. the temperature of newer crust is _____ than older crust.
- 13. plates movement into a theory.
- 17. a break in the Earth's crust where sediment (rock and other things) have slipped past each other.