Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 1. A mountain range or long narrow hilltop.
  2. 4. Wegner Created the Theory of Continental Drift.
  3. 6. Plate A landmass consisting of the continents, Europe & Asia.
  4. 9. Range a line of mountains connected by high ground.
  5. 11. Located under the continents.
  6. 12. The name for the Continents before they were seperated.
  7. 15. 2 plates move away from each other.
  8. 16. Occurs when two plates collide.
  9. 17. The outermost rough shell of Earth.
Down
  1. 1. Plate A tectonic plate which includes the continent of Africa.
  2. 2. A line that marks the limits of an area.
  3. 3. 2 plates slide/move past each other.
  4. 5. 2 plates collide and one goes under the other plate.
  5. 7. Movements in the earth's crust mostly by transform boundary.
  6. 8. An individual part of the Earth's Crust.
  7. 10. Plate One of three plates colliding with the Eurasian Plate.
  8. 11. Any of the world's main continuous expanses of land.
  9. 13. Located under the ocean floor.
  10. 14. Occurs when two plates collide & lava erupts.
  11. 17. Tectonics The movement of tectonic plates.