Tectonic Plate Vocabulary
Across
- 3. The outer most layer of the Earth.
- 4. A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move away from each other.
- 6. Movement caused by warm fluids rising and cooler fluids sinking.
- 8. The name given to the super continent from the well-supported theory that all the continents used to be connected as one.
- 9. When two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and mountains are formed.
- 10. The center of the Earth.
Down
- 1. A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move towards each other.
- 2. When one tectonic plate converges under another due to density differences.
- 5. A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates slide past each other.
- 7. The middle layer of the Earth.