Tectonic Plates Vocab
Across
- 5. large underwater mountain range
- 6. an area where heated rock rises in blooms from the mantle
- 7. motion that transfers energy ->->->
- 8. tectonic plate boundary that pulls apart
- 9. the liquid part o the core on the outside with lower temperatures
- 14. area formed in the widening gap of a divergent boundary
- 16. large or small slab of rock that floats on earth's surface
- 18. plate boundary where plates move in opposite direction against each other
- 19. area made up of lower mantle
Down
- 1. the slow movement of earth continents with time
- 2. the switching of the magnetic poles
- 3. the theory that states that Earth's surface has changed with time and will continue to change
- 4. energy transfer by movement of material
- 10. huge super continent
- 11. earth's thickest layer, semi-liquid layer
- 12. the top most layer we stand on
- 13. the liquid part of the core with high pressure and temperatures making it a solid
- 15. area made up of upper mantle and crust
- 17. tectonic plate boundary that comes together