Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 2. Stresses that cause rocks to shorten
  2. 3. Boundary where two tectonic plates move horizontally against each other
  3. 9. Lowland region that forms where Earth's tectonic plates move apart
  4. 10. Compressed plates that fold upward
  5. 13. Boundary where two tectonic plates collide together
  6. 14. Hanging wall has moved upward above the foot wall
  7. 16. Sudden shaking of the rock in the Earth's crust
  8. 17. Super continent that incorporated almost all the landmasses on Earth
  9. 18. Hanging wall and foot wall are even in height but moving horizontally
  10. 20. Compressed plates that fold downward
Down
  1. 1. Movements of circulation patterns made by differential heating
  2. 4. Boundaries where two plates converge, and one plate is thrust beneath the other
  3. 5. Boundary where two tectonic plates move away from each other
  4. 6. Stresses that cause rocks to elongate
  5. 7. Gigantic pieces of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle
  6. 8. Wave of acoustic energy that travels through the Earth
  7. 11. The theory that Earth's land masses are in constant motion
  8. 12. Hanging wall has moved downward below the foot wall
  9. 15. Separates the earth into plates
  10. 19. Stresses that cause rocks to slip past each other