Tic-Tac-Tonics
Across
- 2. When a volcano erupts this can come out with lava
- 8. The theory that Earth's crust is made up of large pieces that move against each other
- 12. an extremely hot area away from plate boundaries, causes volcanoes and are called these
- 13. All of these have been sleeping for thousands to millions of years
- 17. When plates hit each other with the same density it results in this
- 18. The theory that all plates were connected but drifted apart slowly over time
- 20. When layers of organisms and rock layers are found, giving you a timeline of when they were alive
- 21. When two plates slide past each other
- 22. Low area's of Earth's crust filled with seawater
- 23. extremely hot molten liquid
Down
- 1. These are measured on the Richter scale; the highest at 8 is total destruction
- 3. When molten rock explodes into the air
- 4. When two plates move away from each other
- 5. areas where magma heat water and shoot hot water into the air
- 6. techtonic plates move on top of this
- 7. super continent that joined all plates over 300 million years ago
- 9. When younger layers of rock sit on top of older layers
- 10. The name for mineralized organisms
- 11. A deep and narrow space on the seafloor where the plates are moving downward
- 14. When two plates move towards each other and hit
- 15. The process of a heavier plate pushing downward on another plate
- 16. A big piece of crust that moves on the upper part of the mantle
- 19. When plates shift suddenly and release stored energy