Tectonic Plates
Across
- 5. The lithosphere is ___________ affects us the most
- 7. crust that makes up the land we live on
- 9. The last name of the man who came up with continental drift theory
- 13. These occur because of subduction once magma puts enough pressure on the weak crust above it
- 16. where two tectonic plates meet
- 17. Type of lithosphere plates
- 18. The layer of earth that includes both the upper mantle and crust
- 19. crust that is under the ocean
Down
- 1. These are found at divergent boundaries between continental/continental plates
- 2. The liquid layer of melted Iron and Nickel at the center of the earth
- 3. These are cracks in Earth's crust found at transform boundaries
- 4. The name of earth's supercontinent before it seperated
- 6. Earth's layer that is like putty and flows in convection currents
- 8. The solid layer of the earth at the very center
- 10. The largest layer of the earth that has 3 parts
- 11. This is when one tectonic plate slides under another
- 12. These are created at continental/continental convergent boundaries
- 14. The outermost layer of earth that includes both the land under the ocean and the continents
- 15. The athenosphere is _______ earth's plates move
- 17. A deep crevice in the earth created at a subduction zone