Unit 2 Vocabulary
Across
- 5. a plate boundary where one more dense plate goes under the other less dense plate
- 6. upper layer of the Earth's mantle
- 7. an underwater mountain range where new crust is formed
- 8. the slow movement of the continents overtime
- 11. a plate boundary where two plates come together
- 12. the continents were once all joined together to form a super-continent called
- 13. a crack in Earth's crust between two tectonic plates
- 14. a plate boundary where two parallel plates slide past each other
Down
- 1. a feature where the Earth's crust folds on itself, happens at a convergent boundary
- 2. outer layer of the Earth, consists of the crust and the upper mantle
- 3. forms when one oceanic plate goes under the other
- 4. curved chain of volcanic islands over an oceanic trench
- 5. a process where at a mid ocean ridge the seafloor spreads apart to create new oceanic crust
- 9. a large valley with steep walls formed at a divergent boundary
- 10. a plate boundary where two plates spread apart