Plate Tectonics: Pick a Project

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Across
  1. 1. how many plate boundaries are there.
  2. 3. geological theory that states that pieces of the Earth's lithosphere are constant, slow motion.
  3. 4. a well-tested concept that explains a wide range of observations.
  4. 7. where 2 plates come together.
  5. 11. SUPERcontinent.
  6. 12. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action
Down
  1. 1. a place where 2 plates slip past each other, moving opposite directions.
  2. 2. when 2 plates carrying oceanic crust meet at a trench, the plate that is less dense dives under the other plate and returns to the mantle.
  3. 3. Earth's lithosphere is broken into separate sections.
  4. 5. breaks in the Earth's crust.
  5. 6. A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are or have been erupted from the earth's crust
  6. 7. Heat is transferred from 1 particle of matter to another w/o movement of the matter itself.
  7. 8. a deep valley on land that forms along a divergent boundary.
  8. 9. where 2 plates move apart.
  9. 10. The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.