science crossword project

5. A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust.
8. A sudden tremor of Earth's surface caused by movement of the crust and mantle, usually along a fault line.
10. A row of connected mountains.
11. A map that shows the surface features of an area.
13. A parallel pattern of rock material found at identical locations on each side of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge reveals rock of the same geologic age and polarity.
14. A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions.
15. Volcanoes that rise above the surface of the water and create land with their magma. Some of these include Iceland and Hawaii.
17. a convergent boundary where an oceanic plate is plunging beneath another, overriding plate.
18. tectonic plates that are colliding.
19. An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary.
20. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.

1. Idea that the lithosphere is made up of moving tectonic plates.
2. features that are caused by erosion.
3. land features on the surface, as well as those not as visible.
4. image taken by a man made satellite used to identify land and erosional features.
6. The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations.
7. Chemical or physical process that breaks down rocks into smaller pieces
9. Material that makes up landmasses.
12. fossils of same animals found great distances apart.
16. earths crust located under the ocean.