Across
- 5. What do you call the area where one tectonic plate sinks beneath another?
- 8. What is another name for the crust?
- 9. What is the term for how rocks behave under stress?
- 11. What process creates new seafloor?
- 12. Continental drift is caused by ________ ______
- 13. What is the first compositional layers of the earth?
- 14. What do you call a boundary where plates move towards each other?
- 16. What is another name for a rift?
- 20. What do you call a boundary where two plates move apart?
Down
- 1. What do you call the layers of the earth with four layers?
- 2. What do you call the outermost layer of the core?
- 3. What is the term for directed stress that squeezes rocks together?
- 4. What do you call a boundary where plates slide past each other and cause earthquakes?
- 6. What is the second mechanical layer of the earth?
- 7. What theory explained Continental drift and seafloor spreading?
- 10. What is the third compositional layers of the earth?
- 13. What do you call the theory that said the continents were moving?
- 15. What do you call the layer that should be liquid but is solid due to pressure from other layers?
- 17. What do you call the lower level of the mantle?
- 18. What percent of the earth does the crust take up?(In word form)
- 19. What is the second compositional layers of the earth?
