Plate Tectonic Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. a straight line of travel where data is being collected
  2. 7. a transference of energy
  3. 8. melted rock on Earth's surface
  4. 9. the theory that the lithosphere is broken up into large plates that move and then rejoin; considered the unifying theory of geology
  5. 11. A break in the earth's crust
  6. 12. A weak spot in the middle of a tectonic plate where magma surfaces; forms a volcano (ex: Hawaii & Yellowstone)
  7. 14. melted rock beneath Earth's surface
  8. 15. a series of volcanoes formed at a subduction zone
  9. 16. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other
  10. 19. the rising of regions of the Earth's crust to higher elevations
  11. 21. the idea that continents have moved and are still moving slowly across the Earth's surface
  12. 23. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
  13. 24. The region where oceanic plates sink down into the asthenosphere; one plate under another
Down
  1. 1. the region where two tectonic plates are in contact
  2. 3. a block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantle
  3. 4. a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly
  4. 5. The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface.
  5. 6. the distance from the center of a center of a circle to any point on its circumference
  6. 10. A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
  7. 13. The process that creates new sea floor as plates move away from each other at the mid-ocean ridges
  8. 17. A deep valley that forms where two plates move apart
  9. 18. one of the earliest known rocks formed during the Precambrian Eon
  10. 20. the border between two tectonic plates
  11. 22. the branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust