Plates tectonic
Across
- 6. currents in the mantle that cause the movement of Earth's plates
- 7. an underwater chain of mountains.
- 8. Theory hat the continents were once as one large, single land mass.
- 11. Type of plate boundary where two plates separate or move apart.
- 12. a deep valley that forms on land at a divergent boundary where two plates move apart
- 13. These are formed under water at divergent plate boundaries. They are areas where new ocean crust is formed.
- 15. This forms on land at divergent plate boundaries. There is a great one in Eastern Africa.
- 18. When one tectonic plate moves underneath another one, it's called this.
- 19. the process by which molten material adds new crust to the ocean floor
- 20. Theory that the lithosphere is divided into tectonic plates that move on the asthenosphere.
Down
- 1. Type of plate boundary where two plates slide past each other in opposite directions.
- 2. Rift This place is in Africa and the plates are coming apart.
- 3. a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust.
- 4. Type of plate boundary where two plates collide.
- 5. Type of crust that is thinner and contains basalt.
- 9. These form underwater (on the ocean floor) at most convergent boundaries.
- 10. Layer of earth with the lowest temperature.
- 14. The cool, outermost layer of Earth that consists of the crust and uppermost part of the mantle.
- 16. The layer just below the lithosphere.
- 17. the supercontinent that existed millions of years ago