Across
- 6. the place where sea floor spreading starts
- 10. when there is a divergent boundary on land it creates these
- 11. the layer of Earth just below the crust
- 13. when two plates slide past each other
- 15. the object that the continents sit on and move due to the convection current in the mantle
- 17. when two plates collide
- 18. animal or plant remains that have been preserved in rock
- 19. the layer of Earth that we live on
- 20. a tool that sends sound waves out that hit a surface and bounces back to tell the distance an object is away
Down
- 1. the supercontinent that formed about 300 million years and split apart about 200 million years ago
- 2. the rock that the continents are made of
- 3. the theory the the continents were once connected and moved apart
- 4. when two plates move away from each other
- 5. the scientist that theorised that the continents fit together and have since split apart
- 7. new material is added to the sea floor
- 8. the result of a transform boundary
- 9. where subduction takes place
- 12. the warmest and most pressurized layer of Earth
- 14. the material that the ocean floor is made of
- 16. where the sea floor begins to sink back into the mantle
