Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. A convergent boundary where volcanic mountains and a deep-sea trench are formed.
  2. 5. A long, narrow valley formed at a divergent continental boundary
  3. 8. Circular currents in the mantle caused by the magma being heated by the core of the Earth.
  4. 11. Earth's thickest layer made of hot rock and is less dense than the core, less hot, and has less pressure on it. Magma like consistency.
  5. 14. The name given to the landmass when the continents were all joined as one supercontinent.
  6. 15. The soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats.
  7. 17. A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust.
  8. 18. The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle.
  9. 20. Occur at all plate boundaries, where plates slide past eachother.
  10. 21. A convergent boundary takes place, and continents push against each other, creating fold mountains.
Down
  1. 1. Where two plates slide past each other.
  2. 2. Where a plate overtakes another and the denser plate goes underneath the less dense plate.
  3. 3. A boundary where two plates are moving toward each other, going to collide.
  4. 6. An undersea mountain chain where new ocean floor is produced at a divergent plate boundar
  5. 7. Sections of the Earth's lithosphere that move
  6. 9. A convergent boundary where volcanic islands and a deep-sea trench are formed.
  7. 10. The thin outer layer of the earth that contains the earth's continents
  8. 12. A boundary where two plates are moving away from each other.
  9. 13. Theory by Alfred Wegener that the continents on tectonic plates move.
  10. 16. the innermost part of the earth, a dense sphere of solid iron and nickel at the center of Earth
  11. 19. a layer of molten iron and nickel (liquid) that surrounds the inner core of Earth