Across
- 2. What type of activity is common along the Ring of Fire?
- 4. What deep ocean features can occur from subduction?
- 8. What type of plate boundary involves plates sliding past each other?
- 11. What bodies of water are also moved by tectonic plates?
- 15. What can form at subduction zones?
- 16. What type of spreading occurs at mid-ocean ridges?
- 17. What is the hot and bendable layer under the Earth's crust?
- 18. What are the large landmasses that move across the Earth's surface?
- 19. Who proposed the theory of Continental Drift? (Last name only)
- 21. What is the study of the movement of Earth's plates called? (no spaces)
Down
- 1. What occurs when one plate moves under another?
- 3. What geological event can occur at convergent plate boundaries?
- 5. Which state is home to the San Andreas Fault?
- 6. What was the name of the ancient supercontinent?
- 7. What evidence did Wegener use to support his theory?
- 9. What is the name of the area in the Pacific known for volcanic activity? (no spaces)
- 10. What is the hot liquid rock that comes from the mantle?
- 12. What can form when two continental plates collide?
- 13. What type of valley can form at divergent boundaries?
- 14. What is the process called when new oceanic crust is created (hint: moving apart)?
- 18. What is the outer layer of the Earth called?
- 20. Tectonics What is the scientific theory that explains geological events?