Unit 5 Terminology
Across
- 5. Visible cracks within the Earth’s surface where two tectonic plates meet
- 7. These are the spot where two tectonic plates meet
- 8. This theory states that magma rising at the mid-ocean ridge pushes crust away
- 10. This theory states that the crust is broken up into pieces known as tectonic plates
- 12. The idea that the continents once moved on mantle and move today
- 13. This plate boundary has the plates moving AWAY from one another
- 16. This is movement of magma due to warmer, less dense magma rising while cooler, more dense magma sinks
- 18. The most famous supercontinent
- 19. Last name of scientist who proposed seafloor spreading
- 21. This was a specific fossilized animal found on South America and Africa
- 22. This mountain range formed when The pacific plate slides below below the South American
- 23. This is the process of magma rising at the mid-ocean ridge
- 24. This plate boundary has the plates SLIDING AGAINST/PAST one another
Down
- 1. This occurs when the heavier, more dense oceanic crust slides below the continental crust
- 2. This mountain range formed when the Indian and Eurasian plates collided
- 3. These remains of organisms were one piece of evidence used to support continental drift
- 4. These form on land at a divergent boundary (There is one in Africa)
- 6. Last name of scientist who proposed theory of continental drift
- 9. These are vibrations in the ground as a result of tectonic plates brushing against one another
- 11. Specific region where an oceanic plate slides below the continental, often creating a trench
- 14. Openings within the Earth where magma rises
- 15. This plate boundary has the plates moving TOWARDS one another
- 17. This region within the Pacific with the highest concentration of volcanoes
- 20. The most famous fault line found in California