Across
- 2. current/a circulation pattern in which material is heated and rises in one area then cools and sinks in another area in a continuous loop
- 3. boundary/to tectonic plates push together
- 4. boundary/when two plates move past each other
- 6. hypothetical super continent that included all of the land masses on earth
- 7. layer in earths upper mantle and directly under the lithosphere
- 10. boundary/when two tectonic plates move apart
- 11. crust/the thick part of earths crust and forms large landmasses and older than the oceanic crust
- 14. plates/large moving pieces into which earths lithosphere is broken
- 15. plates/a slab of solid rock
Down
- 1. layer of earth made up of the crust and the ridged rock
- 5. valley/a deep valley formed as tectonic plates move apart
- 8. process by which an oceanic tectonic plate sinks under another plate into earths mantle
- 9. long narrow ditch
- 12. Wegener/proposed a hypothesis known as continental drift
- 13. crust/the thin part of earths crust
