Earth's Tectonics Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• asthenosphere: greek meaning weak. part of earth’s upper mantle.
• continent: 7 largest areas of land of earth’s crust.
• convection: currents caused by heat exchange.
• divergent boundary: place where rifts are found.
• hot spot: places where most volcanoes are formed.
• lithosphere: earth’s rocky, outer layer and crust.
• mantle: layer between earth’s crust and core.
• ocean ridge: longest mountain range in the world made by seafloor spreading.
• plate: one of the large areas of earth’s lithosphere.
• subduction plate: a large land mass that is pushed above or below another.
• subduction zone: region where one plate is pushed below another plate.
• transform fault: a place where 2 plates move in opposite directions.