Tectonic Plates
Across
- 2. What is the name of the boundary when two tectonic plates move away from each other?
- 4. Only 21% of the earths atmosphere is made of this gas.
- 5. The Super Continent that existed 200 Million years ago.
- 7. Temperature of Earth and __________ as depth increases.
- 10. Sections of the Earth's crust.
- 12. Process in which rock, soil is removed from the surface.
- 13. The gases that surround the earth.
- 14. When plates of the earth move toward each other it produces a ______ Boundary.
- 16. Outer most surface of the earth.
- 17. Deposit of soil.
- 18. Layer in our atmosphere that contains our ozone layer.
- 19. Scientist that suggested the plates where moving.
- 22. When two plates are moving ________ from each other, causing earthquakes.
- 23. Study of the earth.
Down
- 1. The water on the earth and in the atmosphere.
- 3. Another name for earth.
- 5. Theory that the continents were once all together, but over Millions of years have moved/drifted and are still moving at about 1-2 inches per year.
- 6. Near a Subduction Zone the plate moves under the crust and is dissolved in the _____?
- 8. The center most part of the earth that is solid.
- 9. A crack in the earth's crust.
- 11. The mantle of the earth is __________ ?
- 15. What type of plate is under the Ring of Fire?
- 19. Process in which rock are broken down into smaller pieces by the effects of weather.
- 20. Part of the earth that supports life.
- 21. What tells the history of the earth and animal placement?