techtonic plates
Across
- 6. valley- another name for the deep crack that splits fault-block mid-ocean ridge mountains
- 7. the uppermost solid part of Earth's crust
- 8. currents- circulatory patterns of heat in the magma believed to be the riving force behind plate movement
- 9. a giant prehistoric landmass where all seven modern continents fused together
- 10. a type of fault where the crust moves sideways past each other
- 13. the branch of geology that deals with the movement that shapes the earth's crust
- 14. ocean ridges- ocean bottom mountain ranges split down the middle by a deep crack
- 15. a type of plate boundary where the plates slowly collide into each other
Down
- 1. a german scientist who was the first person to build a scientific case to support the Theory of Continental Drift
- 2. the process in which crust pushes downward into the mantle at a faultline
- 3. the preserved remains of ancient, once-living organisms
- 4. a type of plate boundary where the plates slowly move apart from each other
- 5. v-shaped valleys that are the deepest parts of the oceans where subduction occurs
- 11. a multi-word term used to describe the movement of oceanic crust as a divergent boundary.
- 12. a large segment of earth crust that slowly moves