Plate Tectonic Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. area of Earth's mantle where hot plumes rise upward, forming a volcano on the crust
  2. 5. chain of volcanoes formed above a subducting plate, positioned in an arc shape
  3. 7. where two or more lithospheric plates collide
  4. 11. surface shaking on Earth from a sudden release of energy in Earth's lithosphere
  5. 12. idea that continents havee and are still moving slowly across Earth
  6. 14. edge of Earth's plates meet at this boundary
  7. 15. oceanic trench area marginal to a continent
  8. 16. discontinuity in a volume of rock across where there has been a lot of displacement from rock-mass movements
  9. 17. fault along a plate boundary where motion is mostly horizontal
Down
  1. 1. The Earth's crust and upper mantle are broken into sections called
  2. 3. pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle
  3. 4. the edge where two plates meet
  4. 6. theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion
  5. 8. two tectonic plates that are MOVING AWAY from each other
  6. 9. vertical elevation of the Earth's surface in response to natural causes
  7. 10. linear shaped lowland between mountain ranges created from a geologic rift
  8. 13. formation of new areas of oceanic crust