chap 7 vocab cross word

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.

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.