Tectonic plates
Across
- 4. Top layer of the earth
- 5. the plates _____ 1.6 cm a year
- 7. ____ is the ability of an object to float in a fluid by displacing a volume of that fluid
- 8. Are formed by two divergent plates
- 10. Cracks in the Earth's surface that allow magma to flow from them
- 12. ______ plates are when two plates come together
- 13. the mantle is made of hot _____ rock
- 14. Center of the Earth
- 15. Middle layer of the earth
- 17. ocean ______ form at divergent plate boundaries
- 19. how many minor plates are there?
- 20. crust is ____ created or destroyed at transform plates
Down
- 1. _____ occur when two transform plates side past each other
- 2. The Mariana trench appears where two ____ plates interact
- 3. _____ are formed by two convergent plates
- 4. Transfer of heat without contact
- 6. ______ plates are when two plates slide past each other
- 9. continent sized columns of superheated mantle is called a mantle ____
- 11. Transfer of heat with contact
- 16. the supercontinent that split apart
- 18. how many major plates are there?