Tectonic Plates

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Across
  1. 3. caused when two tectonic plates are ‘sliding past each other’.
  2. 7. a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
  3. 8. The layer between the crust and the outer core.
  4. 9. a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust
  5. 11. Name the second plate which the ‘Ring of Fire’ encircles.
  6. 12. What is the most common plate boundary zone that we see on the Ring of Fire?
Down
  1. 1. when two tectonic plates are ‘diverging’ or “moving away from each other’.
  2. 2. Where one tectonic plate (usually the heavier plate) moves under or ‘subducts under’ the lighter Tectonic plate.
  3. 4. Fragments or pieces of the earth’s crust
  4. 5. When two plates of the same thickness will not give in to each other which causes the crust to squish like play dough and form mountains at the plate boundary.
  5. 6. Name the trench north of New Zealand.
  6. 10. The deepest parts of the ocean floor where one plate is subducting under another plate