Plate Tectonics Crossword

The outermost layer of the Earth.
The rigid outer part of the Earth, consisting of the crust and the upper mantle.
It is below the lithosphere, relatively low resistance to plastic flow and convection is thought to occur.
The innermost part of the Earth which is a solid ball consisting of iron and nickel.
A fluid layer of the Earth, consisting of iron and nickel.
When two tectonic plates collide.
When two tectonic plates pull away from eachother.
When two tectonic plates slide past eachother.
When convergent plate boundaries collide causing one plate to go underneath the other.
This type of land forms when convergent plates collide.
This type of land can form underwater and on land when divergent plates pull apart.
This occurs when transform boundaries slide against one another.
This happens when two oceanic plates diverge.
A meteorologist and geologist that proposed the Continental Drift Theory.
The study of the shapes and features of Earth's surface.
Shows 3D shapes and elevations of an area of land in 2D.
Lines that connect places on a topography map that are all at the same elevation.
A deep depression of the seafloor caused by the subduction of one plate under another.
A crack in the Earth's crust where rocks slide past one another.
The supercontinent that had once included all of the Earth's land mass.