Across
- 3. a proposed driving force for plate motion in plate tectonics
- 8. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting
- 9. the process by which the North pole is transformed into a South pole and the South pole becomes a North pole.
- 10. a scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements.
- 14. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate
- 15. is a seafloor mountain system formed by plate tectonics.
Down
- 1. when two tectonic plates move away from each other.
- 2. is that part of the motion of a tectonic plate caused by its subduction
- 4. when a receptacle is wired backward.
- 5. an area on Earth where two or more lithospheric plates collide
- 6. magnetic minerals in the rock having the same polarity as the Earth's present
- 7. the movement caused within a fluid by the tendency
- 10. was a super continent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras.
- 11. places where plates slide sideways past each other.
- 12. the formation of new areas of oceanic crust
- 13. the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.