Across
- 7. is a large, rigid piece of earth's lithosphere (the crust and and upper mantle
- 12. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
- 15. dark igneous rock that forms when lava cools quickly at earth's surface
- 16. The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary
- 18. plates move and float on it
- 20. layer that the plates are in made up of solid rock
- 21. The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath earth's surface
- 22. _____ is a meteorologist
- 23. A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of earth
- 24. hard light colored igneous rock that forms when magma cools slowly beneath earth's surface
- 25. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other
Down
- 1. An undersea valley that represents one of the deepest parts of the ocean
- 2. _______ helped create the first detailed maps of the ocean floor
- 3. a single massive supercontinent that once included almost all of earth's land joined together
- 4. is the thin, dense outer layer of earth's crust that lies beneath the oceans
- 5. a curved chain of volcanoes over a subduction zone
- 6. The layer of hot, solid material between earth's crust and core
- 8. These occur in the mantle and move the plates
- 9. Vibrations that travel through earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake
- 10. An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced
- 11. The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
- 13. a crack, split, or opening in the ground
- 14. _____ is hard and rigid thinnest layer
- 17. A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
- 19. A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of earth
