Plate Tectonics Crossword

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Across
  1. 6. where do two plates collide?
  2. 7. what was the mountain range formed when the Indian plate ran into the Eurasian plate?
  3. 9. what's the natural disaster that results in lots of shaking on the earth?
  4. 12. what was the super continent formed 280 millions years ago
  5. 14. where does more dense plates go under less dense plates?
  6. 15. what type of rock forms from rock that undergoes lots of heat and pressure?
Down
  1. 1. what is the largest mid-ocean ridge?
  2. 2. what type of rock forms from cooled lava/magma?
  3. 3. what type of rock forms from sediment that's cemented?
  4. 4. what is the theory that Henry Hess created that helped prove continental drift?
  5. 5. what is formed when volcanoes erupt underwater, and they tend to have more of a smooth shape?
  6. 8. where do two plates pull away from each other?
  7. 10. who was the scientist that is most famous for his theory on Pangea?
  8. 11. what land structure is formed from a rupture in the earth's crust?
  9. 13. what is it called when an area beneath the surface moves melted rock is moving upwards?
  10. 14. what happens when rock gets broken by weathering/erosion