Tectonic Plates

2. An event where 2 or more objects come into violent contact or crash with each other
4. A supercontinent that existed on earths hundred of millions of years ago
5. an area of unusually hot mantle material located deep within the Earth
8. Something like a rock that has been changed by exposure to heat, pressure and more.
10. Divergent Plates pull apart creating new crust
12. The center innermost layer of the planet
13. A theory that Earths continent have drifted across the planets surface
14. The act of pressing something into a smaller space or putting pressure on it from different sides until it gets smaller.
15. A zone of fractures in the Earth's crust where tectonic plates have moved
16. Molten rock that erupts and flows on earth's surface
17. Sudden violent shaking of the ground.
18. Opening in the Earth's crust where magma erupts from beneath the surface forming a mountain shape.

1. Process by which heat is transferred by movement of a heated fluid such as air or water.
3. A geological process where one tectonic plate slides and sinks beneath each other
6. The geological process where new oceanic crust is formed at mid ocean ridges as tectonic plates pull apart.
7. Tectonics The scientific theory that the Earth's outer shell is broken into large plates
8. Extremely hot molten rock that is found beneath earth's surface
9. The hard outer layer the earth
11. A string of volcanoes or earthquakes around the Pacific Ocean
19. Process of two or more things moving towards each other forming a whole