Earth and Space Crossword
Across
- 2. The process of Earth's crust breaking apart
- 4. What type of crust can tectonic plates include?
- 7. Which type of boundary rub against each other?
- 8. Which zone are connected by transform boundaries?
- 12. Which type of boundary moves away?
- 13. What type of fossil was found in similar environments?
- 15. The solid, outer layer of Earth consisting of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle.
- 20. Tropical plant species were found in which desert?
- 21. What are often bordered by mountain ranges or deep trenches?
- 22. Several large landmasses divided to form the present continents in the geological past.
Down
- 1. This famous scientist proposed this hypothesis of continental drift.
- 3. A piece of lithosphere (has a unique geologic history)
- 5. Which type of boundary crash into each other?
- 6. Which zone takes place at convergent boundaries of tectonic plates, moves under another and is forced or sinks due to gravity into the mantle?
- 9. What covers the sea floor?
- 10. The highly viscous, mechanically weak and deforming region of the upper mantle of the Earth.
- 11. The study of the alignment of magnetic minerals in rocks.
- 13. A mixture of molten, volatiles and solids, found beneath the surface of the Earth.
- 14. What is created when hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases escape from a magma chamber below the surface?
- 16. The movement of heated material due to differences in density, causing differences in temperatures
- 17. What is another way to describe "Ridge Push"
- 18. What can movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action cause?
- 19. Which mountain had radioactive rocks as mountain ranges?