Plate Tectonics Crossword

The name of the cold and rigid outermost rock layer
This forms when two plates separate
This forms when two plates slide past each other
This forms when two plates collide
When the denser plate sinks below the more buoyant plate in a process
What is it called when Earth's surface is made of rigid slabs of rock or plates that move with respect to each other
The circulation of material caused by differences in temperature and density
Rising mantle material at mid-ocean ridges creates the potential for plates to move away from the ridge with a force
As a slab sinks, it pulls on the rest of the plate with a force
The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface
A break or crack in Earth's lithosphere along which the rocks move
A valley that forms where plates spread apart at spreading boundaries
A section of lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust
A deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks toward the mantle
The process by which molten material adds new ocean crust to the ocean floor