Tectonic Plates Crossword Puzzle by Chloe Stanley
Across
- 2. An area of rock that has been bent by stress.
- 4. One of the large landmasses of the earth.
- 5. The process that occurs when plates converge and one plate forces the other down into Earth's mantle.
- 7. The process by which rocks change shape under stress.
- 9. The supercontinent that broke apart 225 million years ago.
- 11. A split between two bodies that were once joined.
- 12. Ground movements that occur when blocks of rock in Earth move suddenly and release energy.
- 15. Pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust.
- 17. The outermost layer of earth.
- 18. The thick, dense layer of rock between Earth's crust and its core.
Down
- 1. The amount of force applied an object.
- 2. A crack that forms when large blocks of rock break.
- 3. Made up of the earth’s crust and mantle.
- 4. Type of boundary where two plates collide.
- 6. The center of earth.
- 8. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
- 10. Liquid magma that reaches the surface.
- 13. Type of boundary where two plates slide past each other.
- 14. A form of stress produced by a force that acts to stretch a material.
- 16. Large movable segments of the lithosphere.