Plate Tectonic Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. A deep spot in the ocean caused by subduction
  2. 6. The process of one plate moving beneath the other
  3. 7. A rigid layer that includes the earths crust/upper mantle
  4. 9. Formed by collisions between plates of continental crust
  5. 11. The name of a subduction zone that Vancouver lies within it
  6. 12. The continental crust is made of this rock
  7. 13. There are 3 types of these, convergent, divergent and transform
  8. 14. The soft layer just below the lithosphere
  9. 15. A natural disaster caused by movements of the tectonic plates
  10. 18. A destructive event that results from geological processes
  11. 19. pull Pulling of tectonic plate due to gravity/subduction
  12. 20. The founding father of plate tectonics
Down
  1. 1. The starting point of diverging plates
  2. 3. An usually hot place where island chains such as Hawaii can form
  3. 4. The solid material beneath the asthenosphere
  4. 5. A supercontinent that was formed in 270,000,000 BCE
  5. 8. An opening in the earths surface where magma is released
  6. 10. The pieces that make up the earth's crust
  7. 16. Also known as a titlewave
  8. 17. Its nearly 3000km thick