Across
- 4. A string of volcanoes that form as the result of subduction of one oceanic plate beneath another.
- 7. A deep depression in the ocean floor caused by subduction.
- 8. Wegener's hypothesis that continents slowly move across Earth's surface.
- 9. The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
- 10. The semi-fluid layer of the mantle that tectonic plates move on.
- 12. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
- 14. A deep valley that forms where two continental plates move apart.
- 16. An area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust above it (e.g., Hawaii).
- 17. Molten rock that reaches the Earth's surface.
- 19. The name of the supercontinent that existed 250 million years ago
Down
- 1. An underwater mountain range formed by plate tectonics.
- 2. Molten rock beneath the Earth's surface.
- 3. The process of one plate sinking beneath another into the mantle.
- 5. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
- 6. The point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake's focus.
- 8. The transfer of heat by the movement of fluid (driving force of plate motion).
- 11. The process that creates new oceanic crust at mid-ocean ridges.
- 13. A plate boundary where two plates slide past each other horizontally.
- 15. Large ocean waves often triggered by underwater earthquakes.
- 18. A break in the Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other.
