Download Plate Tectonics Vocabulary Word Search

Plate Tectonics Vocabulary Word Search
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Clues:
 Plate ______________ - The theory that Earth’s crust and upper mantle are broken into sections, called
plates that slowly move around on the mantle.
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______________ fault- In plate tectonics, a boundary between two plates that are sliding horizontally
past one another.
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______________ - The plastic like layer below the lithosphere in Earth’s.
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______________ In plate tectonics, a section of Earth’s lithosphere that moves around the mantle.
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______________ spreading - The theory that magma from Earth’s mantle rises to the surface at
mid-ocean ridges and cools to form new seafloor, which new
magma slowly pushes away from the ridge.
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______________ boundary - In plate tectonics, the boundary between two plates that are diverging, or
moving away from each other.
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______________ - A fossil reptile found both in South America and Africa, providing evidence that
these continents once were joined.
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______________ - The rigid outer layer of Earth, about 100 km thick, composed of the crust and part of
the mantle.
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______________ zone - In the plate tectonics, the area where an ocean floor plate collides with
continental plate.
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______________ - A fossil fern providing evidence those continents once were joined.
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______________ boundary - In plate tectonics. The boundary between two plates that are converging or
moving toward each other.
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______________ current - The driving force of plate tectonics in which hot, plastic like material from
the mantle rises to the lithosphere, moves horizontally, cools and
sinks back to the mantle.
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______________ - A sensitive instrument that records magnetic data and is used to study Earth’s
magnetic field.
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______________ - The name Alfred Wegener gave to the large landmass, made up of all continents, that
he believed existed before it broke apart to form the present
continents.
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______________ - A Princeton University scientist who proposed the theory of seafloor spreading in the
1960’s.
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Continental ______________ - A hypothesis proposed by Alfred Wegener, which state that continents
have moved horizontally around the globe, over time, to reach their
current locations.
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