Tectonic Plate Vocab
Across
- 2. crust that contains mostly land
- 4. long, deep formation on the ocean floor that develops where two tectonic plates are moving toward each other and one is moving under the other
- 6. the crust that lies beneath the ocean
- 8. the later of Earth below the crust
- 10. location where two tectonic plates meet and are moving away from each other
- 11. location where two tectonic plates meet and are moving toward each other
- 12. a mountain like landform that develops when tectonic plates move apart or separate and a new ocean lithosphere forms
Down
- 1. the valley formed by a diverging plate boundary
- 3. location where two tectonic plates meet and slides past each other
- 5. a theory that the lithosphere is broken into segments or plates, that "float" on the asthenosphere, and that interacting among these plates are associated with earthquakes
- 7. Earth's outermost layer
- 9. the process by which one plate of the lithosphere sinks and slides under another