Across
- 5. Term referring to the rigid, rocky outer layer of a planet. On Earth, it comprises the entire crust and the brittle, uppermost portion of the upper mantle.
- 9. The part of the mantle that mantle plume travelled through is nicknamed the _______ mantle.
- 10. The scientific name for the plastic mantle.
- 11. The plate boundary classification found to occur between the Philippine Plate and the Pacific Plate.
Down
- 1. The Pacific Plate is being __________ under the North American plate at the Aleutian Trench.
- 2. By analyzing the speed and ability of a _______ wave to travel through Earth's interior layer, scientists can map it out without having ever gone there.
- 3. Plate boundary type where Earth's plates are moving away from each other.
- 4. Plate _________ determines which plate is subducted and which plate is overridden at a plate boundary.
- 5. S-Waves cannot penetrate/travel through the Earth's outer core because it is made of __________.
- 6. __________ is the position on Earth's surface directly above where an earthquake originated from.
- 7. ______ is the exact point beneath the Earth's surface where an earthquake begins and rock fractures
- 8. ___________ describes the type of heat transfer that occurs within a mantle plume and drives plate tectonics and seafloor spreading.