Science Vocabulary
Across
- 7. cycle of heating, rising, cooling, and sinking
- 8. plasticlike layer of the Earth's surface below the lithosphere
- 9. sections of the lithosphere
- 11. boundary between two plates that are moving apart
- 12. plate boundary that forms when two plates slide past each other
- 13. area where an oceanic plate goes does into the mantle
Down
- 1. The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle
- 2. trenches .any long, narrow, steep-sided depression in the ocean bottom
- 3. place where two plates move together
- 4. outermost layer of the Earth
- 5. rigid layer of Earth's surface made up of the crust and part of the upper mantle
- 6. hypothesis that the continents have moved slowly to their current locations
- 10. Ridge the undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary
- 13. Spreading the process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor