Plate Tectonics Vocab Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 5. Type of boundary where plates slide past each other.
  2. 7. solid layer with plasticity in the upper mantle that is located just below the lithosphere.
  3. 8. Rigid outermost layer of Earth that is divided into enormous pieces called tectonics plates.
  4. 9. Type of boundary where plates move away from each other.
  5. 10. _________. The theory that continents were once connected but have drifted apart.
Down
  1. 1. process in which a denser plate is pushed downward beneath a less dense plate when plates converge.
  2. 2. Type of boundary where plates move towards from each other.
  3. 3. ___________ a circular motion where warm fluid rises and cool fluid sinks. This is the driving force of plate tectonics.
  4. 4. The mineralized remains of organisms, showing how long-dead organisms lived and how their bodies were structured.
  5. 6. this landform forms as a result of convergent boundaries.