Tectonic Plates Crossword
Across
- 3. / a crack or fracture in the earths crust that is associated with movement
- 5. Wegner / the scientist who named Pangaea
- 9. Arc / a arc shaped chain of volcanoes formed above a subduction zone
- 12. Boundary / when two plates are moving apart/away from each other
- 14. / the solid outer section of Earth
- 15. / molten rock, gases, and solid crystals and minerals
- 16. Boundary / when two plates grind against each other to make an earth quake
- 18. / the rocky inner layer above the core
- 19. Core / the only liquid layer of earth
- 20. / the out come of two continental plates diverge
Down
- 1. Arcs / the out come of when two oceanic plates collide, and the older plate it forced under the younger one
- 2. / a vent in the earths surface through which magma and gases erupt
- 4. / a steep-sided depression in the ocean floor
- 6. / when the continents on earth used to be connected in one big piece of land
- 7. boundary / when two plates are pushing towards each other
- 8. Zone / the area where one plate is being pulled under the edge of the other
- 10. Crust / the earth's crust the makes up the continents
- 11. / where two plates meet
- 13. Tectonics / a theory that Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that move over the mantle, the plates act like a hard and rigid shell
- 17. / a high, large mass of earth and rock that rises above the earth's surface with steep or sloping sides