Jessica's plate tectonics crossword puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. hot fluid or semi-fluid material below or within the earth's crust
  2. 6. Vertical fractures where the blocks have mostly moved horizontally
  3. 7. Earth's tectonic plates move apart, or rift
  4. 9. remains or traces of organisms that were once alive
  5. 12. Sea-floor spreading were combined into the new more recent theory of ___________.
  6. 14. What caused the San Andreas fault
  7. 15. A giant landmass that existed 200 million years ago
  8. 18. The shaking of the Earth due to a sudden release of energy
  9. 19. The cycle that powers the ocean currents, weather, and tectonic plates
  10. 20. area on Earth where two or more lithospheric plates collide
Down
  1. 1. A boundary between two plates that are moving apart
  2. 2. plate oceanic tectonic plate that lies beneath the Pacific Ocean
  3. 4. major tectonic plate straddling the Equator as well as the prime meridian
  4. 5. tectonics
  5. 8. Known for creating the continental drift theory
  6. 10. Process by which new ocean lithosphere forms
  7. 11. geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle at convergent boundaries
  8. 13. fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock
  9. 16. the deepest parts of the ocean floor
  10. 17. a geological process in which the oceanic lithosphere is recycled into the Earth's mantle