Underwater Terms Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 3. this catastrophe was followed by a tsunami that hit Japan in 2011
- 4. when plates move apart
- 5. theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust
- 7. the basis of the 3 different plate movementss
- 9. the gradual movement of the continents across the earth over time
- 12. an underwater mountain range found in the middle of the Atlantic ocean
- 14. the process of one plate being sucked under another
Down
- 1. when new areas are created due to divergent boundaries
- 2. this natural disaster occured and destroyed the Phillipines in 2004.
- 6. when hot air is pushed up and then turned into cold air and brought back down and turned back into hot air
- 8. when plates come together
- 10. the two sublayers of the earths crust that move and float across the earth
- 11. when plates slide across one another
- 13. the Mariana is the deepest ________ in the world