Rowan's Dynamic Earth Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 4. A long curve in the ocean floor.
- 6. A chain of volcanic islands formed at convergent plate boundaries.
- 8. An area in which is affected by magnetism.
- 10. The thin, outermost layer of Earth.
- 13. A crack in the Earth, caused by a divergent plate boundary of two continental plates pulling apart.
- 16. Juan De Fuca is an example of this.
- 17. The formation of new oceanic crust caused by divergent plate boundaries.
- 18. The crust that is under the ocean floor.
- 19. A dark, volcanic rock, divergent boundaries are made up of this.
- 20. Not flexible, hard to bend.
- 21. An event that happens only every 780,000 years in which the magnetic polarities of earth switch.
- 24. The movement at the edge of a plate of the earth's crust that moves into the mantle under another plate.
- 25. The geologist that came up with the idea of continental drift.
Down
- 1. The upper layer of earth's mantle, it is above the lithosphere.
- 2. Very hot, can be used as an adjective for lava.
- 3. A scientific branch in which studies magnetism occurring in rocks.
- 5. Lava that solidified into a round shape.
- 7. The crust that makes up earth's continents.
- 9. The woman who was tasked with mapping the ocean floor in the year 1952.
- 10. The theory that was turned into plate tectonics today.
- 11. A chain of volcanos formed above an area where subduction happens.
- 12. Caused from subduction, or oceanic divergent plate boundaries pulling apart.
- 14. An event caused from a transform plate boundary of plates sliding past each other.
- 15. The famous supercontinent, comes from the Greek words pan, which means all or entire, and gaea which means earth.
- 22. Hot liquid that becomes igneous rock when it cools.
- 23. The innermost part of earth, it is very hot.