Jonas's Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle

2. This Earth-shaking event occurs when a transform boundary releases energy.
3. This forms when subduction occurs, along with volcanoes.
4. This scientist's idea of plate tectonics was rejected.
7. a plate boundary where two or more plates are pulling apart from each other.
8. This was a supercontinent that was made of every continent, but they were all one landmass.
9. This is a plate boundary where two or more plates slide past each other.
11. The materials or elements in which each layer is composed.
16. This occurs when an oceanic plate and a continental plate push against each other.
17. This is the only layer of Earth that is liquid.
20. This occurs at a mid ocean ridge, and it produces new oceanic crust.
21. This layer of Earth contains the crust and part of the mantle, and it is broken up into many pieces.
22. The thickest layer of Earth, made mostly of compressed stone.
24. This layer has the convection currents.
27. This person discovered the mid-Atlantic ridge by drawing very detailed maps of the ocean's profile.

1. This happens when Earth's magnetic field switches.
5. A plate boundary where two or more tectonic plates are pushing against each other.
6. Oceanic plates are made of this rock.
10. Liquified igneous rock.
12. The idea that the lithosphere is broken up into many slowly moving tectonic plates.
13. This forms when two oceanic plates pull apart from each other.
14. The way in which the layers behave due to pressure and heat.
15. The most hot, dense, and innermost layer of Earth.
18. An iron rich mineral found in igneous and sedimentary rocks.
19. The study of Earth's polarity.
23. Continental crust is mostly made of this rock.
25. These waves help people find out the composition of the Earth.
26. The most outer layer of Earth.