Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 3. Tectonic plates move
  2. 9. Liquified hot rock
  3. 12. Sediments being moved away by wind or water
  4. 13. Super-continent from 250M years ago
  5. 14. Plates moving apart
  6. 17. Mountain range cause by Indian and Eurasian plate colliding
  7. 19. Outermost layer of Earth
  8. 21. A deep cavern formed next to oceanic subduction zones
  9. 23. ______________ plates
  10. 25. Rocks made in volcanoes
  11. 29. An opening between two diverging oceanic plates
  12. 30. State of matter of the inner core
  13. 32. Ground shaking
  14. 34. How heat moves through a fluid
  15. 35. A large land mass
  16. 36. Plates coming together
Down
  1. 1. Rocks changed by heat and pressure
  2. 2. Largest continental plate
  3. 4. Person who first suggested tectonic plate theory
  4. 5. Plate subducting under South America
  5. 6. Giant wave caused by earthquakes
  6. 7. Deepest part of the Pacific Ocean
  7. 8. Biological specimen preserved in rock
  8. 10. Plates sliding pat each other
  9. 11. Molten rock escapes the Earth here
  10. 15. Geographic location of an Earthquake
  11. 16. Layer between the core and crust
  12. 18. Continental _________
  13. 20. Area around the pacific
  14. 22. ________ valley. Occurs when two continental plates diverge.
  15. 24. Rocks formed in layers
  16. 26. Thinner, denser crust
  17. 27. Process of one plate sinking under another
  18. 28. Where two plates meet
  19. 31. Rocks being broken down by natural forces
  20. 33. Type of volcano on middle of a plate