Across
- 2. Rising mantle material at mid-ocean ridges creates the potential for plates to move away from the ridge with this force.(two words)
- 6. The theory that earth's surface is made of rigid slabs of rock that move.(two words)
- 7. A theory that suggested that continents are in constant motion.(two words)
- 8. This refers to grain size and how the grains are arranged.
- 12. The results when uneven pressures cause flat minerals to line up.
- 13. Rock and mineral fragments that are loose or suspended in water.
- 15. This pulls on the rest of the plate with this force.(two words)
- 18. Molten rock that erupts onto earth's surface.
- 20. A state in which magnetized objects will orient themselves to point to the north.(two words)
Down
- 1. The process of laying down sediment in a new location.
- 3. The process through which sediment turns into rock.
- 4. The process by which new oceanic crust forms along a mid-ocean ridge.(two words)
- 5. a state in which magnetized objects would reverse direction and orients to point to the south.(two words)
- 9. The process that loves large amounts of rock up to earths surface.
- 10. The individual parts in a rock.
- 11. The cold and rigid outermost rock layers.
- 14. Molten rock when it is inside earth.
- 16. The denser plate sinks below the more buoyant plate in this process.
- 17. The theory that all continents were once a supercontinent.
- 19. This is a naturally occuring solid mixture composed of minerals and other things.