Across
- 2. occurs and the magnetic field reverses direction (2)
- 6. mountain ranges in the middle of the oceans (2)
- 7. Fill in the blank: Plate _________
- 8. Fill in the blank: Continental _____
- 10. the process by which new oceanic crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge and older oceanic crust moves away from the ridge (2)
- 13. The name of the theoretical supercontinent
- 14. as a slab sinks it pulls on the rest of the plate with a force (2)
- 15. Teacher of 8 grade science
- 16. Female geologist in the 1960's (2)
- 19. forms where two plate collide
- 20. a state in which magnetized objects will orient themselves to point north (2)
Down
- 1. the circulation of material caused by differences in temperature and density
- 3. when the denser plate sinks below the more buoyant plate
- 4. forms where two plates slide past each other (3)
- 5. forms when two plates seperate (3)
- 9. father of pangaea (2)
- 11. a state in which magnetized objects would reverse direction and orient themselves to point south (2)
- 12. the cold and rigid outermost rock layer
- 17. rising mantle material in mid-ocean ridges creates the potential for plates to move away from the ridge with a force (2)
- 18. What lesson is this?