Geology and Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 4. Type of crust that is made up of granite.
  2. 5. The result of the continental and oceanic crusts meeting.
  3. 8. What is inside the mantle.
  4. 12. Where the tectonic plates are located.
  5. 13. The pulling apart of the sea floor at the ridge.
  6. 14. Two plates sliding side-by-side.
  7. 15. Where new rocks form from rising magma.
  8. 16. ________ created the first proposed rock cycle.
  9. 18. The dividing or pulling apart of plates.
  10. 20. Type of crust that is made up of basalt.
Down
  1. 1. A new form of technology that bounced sound waves off of the ocean floor.
  2. 2. What is outside of the mantle.
  3. 3. The force that derives plate movement.
  4. 6. The coming or pushing together of plates.
  5. 7. Discovered the process called sea-floor spreading.
  6. 9. The supercontinent that was theorized by Alfred Wegener.
  7. 10. An area where a lot of subduction activity occurs.
  8. 11. The study of the Earth and the forces that change the shape of the Earth.
  9. 17. The process of one plate sliding below the other.
  10. 19. A well researched idea or thought that has not been proven a fact.