'Hot Crossed Plates'

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Across
  1. 6. the product of transform boundaries
  2. 7. a lowland region that forms where Earth's tectonic plates move apart, or rift
  3. 10. A tectonic boundary where two plates are moving toward each other
  4. 12. the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.
  5. 14. where new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other
  6. 15. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
Down
  1. 1. is a process that involves the movement of energy from one place to another. It is also called convection heat transfer.
  2. 2. super continent
  3. 3. a German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist.
  4. 4. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
  5. 5. the upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere, in which there is relatively low resistance to plastic flow and convection is thought to occur.
  6. 8. where plates slide sideways past each other
  7. 9. the process of divergent boundries
  8. 11. one result of convergent boundries
  9. 13. a massive, irregularly shaped slab of solid rock