Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle

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