Across
- 4. reversal When magma rises to the Earth's surface at a mid-ocean ridge, it flows out onto both sides of the ridge, gradually cooled by the seawater
- 5. current any movement of matter that results from differences in density may be vertical, ciccular, or cyclical
Down
- 1. the process by which one lithosphere plate moves beneath another plates as a result of tectonic forces
- 2. spreading the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at midocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side.
- 3. tectonics a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates which move slowly over the underlying mantle.
- 6. drift the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.
