Across
- 2. A massive area of solid rock made up of Earth's
- 8. A string of volcanoes and sites of seismic activity, or earthquakes, around the Pacific Ocean
- 10. A scientific theory that explains how major land forms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements
- 11. A continuous range of underwater mountains that rise up
- 12. A large plume of hot mantle material rising from deep within the earth
- 15. Chains of islands formed by volcanoes located along the subduction zone
- 17. A fracture in Earth's crust that have slid past each other
- 19. It occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other
- 20. Extremely hot liquid and semi-liquid rock under Earth's surface
Down
- 1. It occurs when tectonic plates move away from each other
- 3. It occurs where two tectonic plates slide past each other
- 4. Where all continents moved over Earth's surface spreading apart
- 5. Long narrow depressions on the sea floor
- 6. It occurs where too tectonic plates move torwards each other
- 7. A lowland region that forms where Earth's tectonic plates move apart, or rift
- 9. The remains of a prehistoric organism preserved in rock over time
- 13. A super continent where all the continents on earth were once connected like a puzzle piece
- 14. An opening in the Earth's crust, which lava, ash, and gas erupt
- 16. It occurs when one tectonic plate moves underneath another one
- 18. Molten rock ejected by volcanoes in the form of a liquid
