The Dynamic Earth Crossword
Across
- 4. plates scraping past each other, causes earthquakes
- 8. Mt. Everest, for example
- 10. highest at the center of the earth
- 12. plates overlapping
- 13. violent cracks in the earth
- 15. "land" plates
- 16. plates pushing into each other, forms mountains
- 17. liquid rock layer under crust
Down
- 1. _____ plates cause continents to move
- 2. continental _____, Wegener's hypothesis
- 3. where convection occurs
- 5. scientific "proof"
- 6. crust and upper mantle
- 7. plates moving away from each other, forms mid ocean ridges
- 9. dense, "ocean" plates
- 11. heat transfer in liquids and gases
- 14. San Andreas _____, caused by transform boundaries
- 16. two parts, one liquid and one solid