The Earth and Plates
Across
- 3. A type of plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
- 5. A fracture in Earth's crust where rock on either side has moved.
- 10. The liquid layer of the Earth's core.
- 12. The rigid outer layer of the Earth, including the crust and upper mantle.
- 14. A type of plate boundary where two plates slide past each other horizontally.
- 15. The study of the movement and interaction of Earth's plates.
- 16. The supercontinent that existed over 200 million years ago.
Down
- 1. The solid innermost layer of the Earth's core.
- 2. A crack or break in the Earth's crust, often at a divergent boundary.
- 4. A type of plate boundary where two plates move towards each other.
- 6. The semi-fluid layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move.
- 7. The process of new oceanic crust forming at mid-ocean ridges and spreading outwards.
- 8. The process by which heat is transferred through fluids like magma, driving plate movements.
- 9. The process by which one tectonic plate sinks beneath another.
- 11. The outermost layer of the Earth.
- 13. The thick, semi-solid layer between the crust and the core.