Across
- 3. synonym for change
- 4. theory that explains that continents are not stationary, but move across the Earth's surface is ______ drift theory.
- 7. when plates move towards each other
- 8. movement of two oceanic plates away from each other
- 12. movement of plates because of hot liquid under surface rising
Down
- 1. great _______ rift is like a mid-ocean ridge.
- 2. plates move away from each other
- 3. The lithosphere, which is the rigid outermost shell of a planet, is broken up into ________.
- 5. a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake
- 6. ____of plate tectonics that says the Earth's lithosphere is divided into about 12 large plates.
- 8. when plate goes under another plate
- 9. a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction
- 10. A tectonic boundary where two plates are moving away from each other and new crust is forming from magma that rises to the Earth's surface between the two plates is a ______boundary
- 11. a long, narrow, deep depression in the ocean floor