Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 1. Movement of the edge of one tectonic plate moving under another plate
  2. 4. Layer of melted rock
  3. 5. Most famous plate boundary that has the most seismic activity
  4. 6. Melted rock on the Earth’s surface
  5. 8. The solid outer part of the Earth that includes the Crust and the Mantle
  6. 9. Name of supercontinent
  7. 11. A type of seismic activity that is caused by pressure building up in plates and quickly releasing
  8. 12. Boundary where plates pull apart
  9. 13. Boundary where plates slide past each other
  10. 16. Natural mass that is formed when plates split underneath one another
  11. 18. Largest continental plate
  12. 19. Large wave created by underwater earthquakes
Down
  1. 1. Name of machine that measure and records seismic activity
  2. 2. What car enthusiasts and the continental plates do
  3. 3. Boundary where plates push together
  4. 7. The man who came up with the Plate Tectonics Theory
  5. 10. The uppermost layer of the earth
  6. 14. A crack or fracture in the earth's crust
  7. 15. Natural mass formed when plates push up against each other
  8. 17. Melted rock beneath the Earth’s surface