Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. runs along the Mid Atlantic Ridge and was discovered by Maurice Ewing and Bruce Heezen in 1953
  2. 5. ____ are one result of the movement within the Earth's crust which causes violent shaking of the ground
  3. 6. the theory of ____ explains the movement of the Earth's plates.
  4. 9. ____ is the formation of the new areas of the oceanic crust
  5. 12. convergent, divergent, and transform are 3 primary types of this
  6. 14. a tectonic boundary where two plates are moving toward each other
Down
  1. 1. a tectonic boundary where two plates move away from each other and a new crust forms from magma that rises to the Earth's surface
  2. 2. the theory of ____ states within time, the continents, including the ocean, move around the Earth's surface
  3. 4. a ____ is long, narrow steep-sided depression into the Earth's crust
  4. 7. ____ boundaries is where two plates slide against each other in a sideways motion
  5. 8. a ____ sometimes move, float, and sometimes fracture and whose interaction causes continental drift, earthquakes, volcanoes, mountains, and oceanic trenches
  6. 10. a high sea wave caused by submarine landscapes, earthquakes, or other disturbances is called a ____.
  7. 11. the sideways and downwards motion of the edge of a plate of the Earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate is called ____
  8. 13. transfer of heat by the circulation of the heated parts of a liquid or gas