Plate Techtonics

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Across
  1. 2. a scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements
  2. 6. Current​ current in a fluid that results from convection.
  3. 7. two tectonic plates move past one another
  4. 10. the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma at midocean ridges and its subsequent outward movement on either side.
Down
  1. 1. When two plates come together
  2. 3. a long, seismically active submarine ridge system situated in the middle of an ocean basin and marking the site of the upwelling of magma associated with seafloor spreading.
  3. 4. Molten rock
  4. 5. a crack, split, or break in something
  5. 8. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate. ​
  6. 9. two tectonic plates move away from each other