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Tectonic Plates Topics

Puzzle Type: Educational
Horizontales
The surface along which rocks break and slide past each other.
A linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other.
Stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object.
The type of stress that occurs when an object is squeezed as when two techtonic plates collide.
Occurs when rock layers bend due to the stress in the Earth's crust.
The process by which new oceanic lithosphere is created as older materials are pulled away.
The amount of force per unit area that is put on a given material.
Verticales
The surface along which rocks break and slide past each other.
The region where oceanic plates sink down into the asthenosphere.
An underwater mountain range formed by plate tectonics.
The theory that continents can drift apart from one another and have done so in the past.
The theory that the Earth's lithosphere is divided into tectonic plates that move around on top of the asthenosphere.
When two tectonic plates push into one another, at the boundary where they meet.
The boundary between two tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally.