Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 2. Heat transfer by the movement of a fluid.
  2. 3. The transfer of energy that is carried in rays.
  3. 4. An area where material from deep within Earth's mantle rises through the crust and melts to form magma.
  4. 8. A single landmass that was around about 300 million years ago.
  5. 9. When the ocean floor plunges into deep underwater canyons.
  6. 10. Heat transfer between materials that are touching.
  7. 12. A mountain that forms on Earth's crust when magma, reaches the surface.
  8. 13. One major of volcanoes.
  9. 14. Breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other.
Down
  1. 1. The idea that the continents slowly moved over Earth's surface.
  2. 3. Parts of Earth's crust separate on land.
  3. 5. long chains of mountains that rise up from the ocean floor.
  4. 6. The process of which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle again.
  5. 7. The outer pieces of earth broken into pieces.
  6. 11. Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock.