Crossword Puzzle Activity - SCIENCE

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Across
  1. 3. Resists movement of lithosphere plates.
  2. 5. A region of deformed rocks that is formed when two plates collide and one plate crumples and is uplifted.
  3. 7. The process of forming Mountains and Mountain Ranges.
  4. 9. A long narrow depression in the ocean floor and is created at the Subduction Zone.
  5. 12. Formed through Plate Convergence.
  6. 13. It is caused by the rising of heat from the core toward the Mantle. Convection currents drive the plates away from one another.
  7. 14. The plates slide against each other in opposite directions and a massive amount of energy is released, causing Earthquakes.
Down
  1. 1. Two plates slide toward each other and form either a Subduction Zone or an Orogenic Belt.
  2. 2. They are cracks on the Earth's crust.
  3. 4. Pushes tectonic plates toward one another or pull them apart.
  4. 6. Acts against the Driving Forces of plate tectonics.
  5. 8. Result from the unwarping of tectonic plates and are not accompanied by the collision of Plate Boundaries..
  6. 10. The plates move away and the space between them is filled with magma that forms underneath. Molten lava rises, cools and becomes part of the ocean floor and the gap eventually widens and evolves.
  7. 11. These two plates move away from each other and a gap or rift between them is created.