Science Chapter 4 - Plate Tectonic
Across
- 2. when continents were all once joined ; Greek word for "All World."
- 4. the thin and solid outermost layer of the Earth above the mantle
- 6. a block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantle.
- 7. a machine that measures the times at which seismic waves arrive at different distances from an earthquake.
- 8. is a plastic layer of the mantle on which pieces of the lithosphere move.
- 10. a set of deep cracks that forms between two tectonic plates that are pulling away from each other.
Down
- 1. the boundary in which tectonic plates separate
- 3. an upward-arching fold in the Horizontal Stress Process
- 4. the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass and drifted their present locations.
- 5. the central part of the Earth below the Mantle.
- 9. stress that occurs when forces act to stretch n object