Plate Tectonics Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Man's best friend
  2. 3. Earth's outer layer that can be oceanic or continental.
  3. 6. Large marsupial
  4. 7. ___ Wegener was the first scientist to propose the theory of plate tectonics.
  5. 10. The landform that was all the continents fit together like a puzzle.
  6. 11. The ___ crust is older and more buoyant.
  7. 12. A ___ boundary is when two plates slide passed each other.
  8. 14. A ___ boundary is when two plates move away from each other.
  9. 16. Another name for Earth's outermost layer besides The Crust.
  10. 20. Caused by an oceanic plate being pushed under a continental plate.
  11. 21. The Famous Geological Feature: The San Andreas ___
  12. 24. The layer in between the core and the crust that is split into two layers.
  13. 25. Organisms preserved in rock when heat and pressure is applied.
Down
  1. 2. The ___ crust is younger and more dense.
  2. 4. Seafloor ___ is caused by a divergent boundary.
  3. 5. A ___ boundary is when two plates move towards each other.
  4. 8. Flying mammal
  5. 9. They are caused by movement in the Earth's crustal formations.
  6. 13. Molten rock under the Earth's crust.
  7. 15. The super continent Pangaea, was split into two parts named, Laurasia and ___.
  8. 17. Plate ___ is the study of Earth's lithosphere divided into different moving plates.
  9. 18. Has a trunk
  10. 19. Where magma escapes the Earth to form islands.
  11. 22. Likes to chase mice
  12. 23. A Divergent boundary: The Mid Atlantic _­­__