Plate Tectonics Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Where tectonic plates converge, the one with thin oceanic crust subducts beneath the one capped by thick continental crust
  2. 5. the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations
  3. 6. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle
  4. 9. this occurs when plates move towards each other and collide to form mountains
  5. 10. When two tectonic plates move away from each other
Down
  1. 1. The theory that explains how large pieces of the lithosphere called plates, move and change shape
  2. 2. when two tectonic plates slide sideways past each other that cause earthquakes
  3. 4. a geologic process in which tectonic plates—large slabs of Earth's lithosphere—split apart from each other
  4. 7. A region deep within the Earth's mantle from which heat rises through the process of convection
  5. 8. supercontinents that formed 300 mya and began to break up beginning 250 mya