Tectonic Plate Crossword
Across
- 2. large rock that consists of the earth's lithospshere
- 3. fracture/zone of fractures
- 6. a curved chain of volcanic islands formed at a convergent plate boundary caused by subduction
- 8. long, narrow, elevated landform
- 10. a supercontinent that incorporated almost all the landmasses on earth
- 11. process of a mountain forming
- 12. example of extensional tectonics
- 13. earths outer rigid shell of solid rock
- 15. mountain with magma and built up gas escaping
- 16. located between the crust and the core
- 17. molten rock found under the earth's surface
- 19. long, narrow, deep depression on the seafloor
- 20. located at the centre of earth, VERY hot
Down
- 1. outer part of earth
- 4. the process where one tectonic plate moves beneath another and sinks into the earth's mantle
- 5. a vechile that can be completely submerged underwater
- 7. stationary location of hot mantle rock, beneath the earth's crust
- 9. shaking and trembling of the earth's surface
- 14. a natural landform defined by its considerable height and steep slopes
- 18. when two tectonic plates slide past eachother