Across
- 2. two plates slide horizontally past each other
- 5. molten rock (magma) that erupts from a volcano or fracture onto a planet's surface, flowing at extremely high temperatures
- 7. a downward fold in rock layers
- 8. hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling.
- 10. Plate boundaries moving apart
- 11. formed when large blocks of the Earth's crust are uplifted or tilted along faults
- 12. the geological process where one tectonic plate slides beneath another and sinks into the Earth's mantle at a convergent plate boundary
- 13. the transfer of energy (heat or electricity) through direct contact between particles
- 14. an arch like fold in rock layers
- 15. Plate boundaries moving together
Down
- 1. the transfer of heat through the movement of fluids (liquids or gases) where warmer, less dense fluid rises, and cooler, denser fluid sinks, creating currents that circulate energy.
- 3. a mountain range formed from the buckling and folding of Earth's crustal rock layers due to intense compressional forces from colliding tectonic plates
- 4. a large, elevated, flat-topped landform with steep sides
- 6. the edge or zone where two tectonic plates meet
- 9. the emission or transmission of energy as waves or particles through space or a medium,
- 11. an area of related cracks
- 12. the geological process where new oceanic crust forms at mid-ocean ridges as tectonic plates pull apart, allowing magma from the Earth's mantle to rise, cool, and solidify, creating new seafloor that then moves away from the ridge, causing ocean basins to expand