Tectonic plates
Across
- 5. a scientist that studies rock and earth's crust
- 8. The name of the scientist that developed the theory of continental drift
- 11. the theory that the continents drift apart
- 12. when 2 plates move away from each other
- 14. a natural force on earth that holds plates together
- 16. when plates move toward each other
- 18. the 2nd layer of earth
- 19. the remains of a prehistoric orgainsum that were presurved
Down
- 1. a break in the rock of earth's crust or mantle
- 2. the theory that the oldest rock is at the bottom and youngest on the top
- 3. when 2 plates slip past each other
- 4. a natural formation formed at convergent boundaries
- 6. the force that acts on rock to change it's shape or volume
- 7. a molten mixture of rock forming substances from the mantle
- 9. a structure that forms in earth's crust when magma reaches the earth's surface
- 10. An area of the mantle where hot rock rises upward
- 13. Most if not all the continent where conected and made a super continect
- 15. Earth's surface is broken up into more than a dozen distance plates
- 16. The type of thermal energy transfer that takes place in earth mantle
- 17. The shaking and trembling of a plate after it releases stress