The Science Brain Game
Across
- 3. solid,rigid part of the earth's crust and the upper mantle
- 4. a small extremely hot region within the mantle
- 5. large underground pools of molten magma
- 7. slow moving currents of magma within the mantle
- 8. the thickest layer of the earth
- 9. proposed the theory of continental drift
- 10. no longer active or erupting, but capable of erupting one day
- 11. where two plates slide past one another
- 15. where oceanic plates converge and the older, more dense plate is subducted
- 16. fractures that form where the crust is stretched apart
- 17. waves that earthquakes produce
- 18. valley that forms where continental crust is stretched and becomes thin
- 19. name of a large landmass
Down
- 1. where two plates move away from each other
- 2. pliable, dense, upper part of the mantle
- 6. layer of earth that is a solid and has extreme pressure
- 7. where two plates collide
- 12. the process of an older oceanic plate being pulled under another plate
- 13. underwater mountain range produced by a divergent plate boundary
- 14. proposed the theory of seafloor spreading