Vocab Words

4. The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary
7. The flow that transfers heat within a fluid
8. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other
11. A supercontinent, or single landmass that existed about 300 million years ago in Wegener's theory
12. One major belt of volcanoes
13. When magma reaches the surface
14. The transfer of thermal energy by the movement of a fluid
15. The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves

1. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
2. A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
3. A deep valley along the ocean floor beneath with oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle
5. The transfer of thermal energy from one particle of matter to another
6. An area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust above it
9. A mountain that flows in Earth's crust when molten material, or magma, reaches the surface
10. The molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle