Across
- 3. Theory that pieces of the Earth's lithosphere are in motion,driven by convection currents in the mantle
- 4. A huge mountain built with Magma.
- 5. A soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats
- 9. A plate boundary where two plates grind against each other, moving it different directions
- 12. A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of the Earth
- 13. The layer of rock that forms the Earth's outer surface
- 15. German Scientist who developed the Theory of the Continental Drift in 1912.
- 16. The name of the single landmass that broke apart about 225 million years ago
Down
- 1. The undersea mountain mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary
- 2. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other
- 6. The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary
- 7. The layer of rock that forms the Earth's outer surface
- 8. Causes cracks in the ground, also causes tsunamis.
- 10. A break or crack in the Earth's lithosphere along which rocks move
- 11. A deep valley where two plates move apart
- 14. A deep canyon on the ocean floor
