Across
- 2. The type of plates granite makes up
- 6. The layer of rock that forms Earth's outer surface
- 7. Vibrations that travel through Earth carrying the energy released during an earthquake
- 8. The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface
- 10. A dropped zone where plates pull apart
- 11. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other
- 12. The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary
- 14. a layer of the Earth where the tectonic plates move
- 18. This heat transfer drives plate motion due to density differences
- 20. boundary A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
- 23. The layer of hot, solid material between Earth's crust and core
- 24. the type of plates that are made of basalt rock
- 25. A plate boundaary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
Down
- 1. A layer of the Earth that allows tectonic plates to move on top
- 3. A dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of Earth
- 4. The type of rock continental plates are made from
- 5. The type of rock oceanic plates are made from
- 9. The first scientist to create the theory of continental drift
- 13. Am undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced; a divergent plate boundary under the sea
- 15. The last supercontinent on Earth
- 16. The plate theory made up by Alfred Wegener
- 17. An undersea valley that represents one of the deepest parts of the ocean
- 19. A molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle
- 21. A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the inner core of Earth
- 22. The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
