Across
- 4. drift, movement of continents through time
- 6. , the rigid outer part of the earth containing the crust and the upper mantle
- 10. the rising or settling of a portion of the Earth's lithosphere
- 12. boundary, when two or more lithospheric plates collide
- 13. the animals living in the sediments of the water
- 14. when one crustal plate descends below the edge of another
- 15. tectonics, Scientific theory describing how major landforms are created
Down
- 1. vent, a fissure formed at the seafloor
- 2. Boundary, places where plates slide past each other
- 3. the removal of moisture
- 5. the upper layer of the Earth's mantle
- 7. distribution in zones or of definite characteristics
- 8. boundary, two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
- 9. narrow depression on the seafloor formed at the boundary of the tectonic plate hello\
- 11. shelf, A part of a continent that are submerged in shallow water