Dafna Plate Tectonics Crossword

1. When the Earth cracks far down and hits the asthenosphere creating a volcano inside a fissure in the Earth’s crust.
5. When Oceanic crust goes under continental crust and creates trenches in the sea floor.
10. Heat transferred through the movement of fluids or gasses, based on density.
12. Solid uppermost part of the mantle.
14. Solid outermost layer of the earth subdivided continental crust and oceanic crust, broken into tectonic plates.
15. A place where two plates meet or collide.
18. Solid inner most layer of earth, it is also made up of nickel and iron.
19. solid top most layer of the earth, includes crust and solid part of the mantle.
20. Natural disasters caused by the movement of tectonic plates.

2. When two plates collide with each other.
3. When one plate goes under another because there is a difference in density.
4. When continental plates collide the crust gets folded and mountains form.
6. Really hot liquid metal and rock primary, metals are iron and nickel, It is also under the asthenosphere.
7. When Oceanic plates collide if there is a difference in density there is subduction which often creates trenches in the ocean floor.
8. When plates move away from each other
9. A break in the Earth’s crust.
11. Gooey melted rock that is located directly under the lithosphere.
13. depression in the ocean floor usually by a subduction zone or fault line
16. When Plates collide and doing so shakes or reshapes the Earth.
17. A mountain spewing molten rock or lava from the Asthenosphere.