Plate Tetonics

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Across
  1. 2. when oceanic plates diverge and magma rises through the crust and forms new crust
  2. 5. A deep valley along the ocean floor
  3. 8. the theory that the continents have drifted away from each other
  4. 9. the original super continent
  5. 13. the process in which 2 plates are diverging forming new crust along the Mid Atlantic ridge
  6. 14. plates situated throughout the lithosphere
  7. 16. Molten rock
  8. 17. when 2 continental plates slide horizontally past each other
  9. 18. Soft layer of the mantle
  10. 19. when 2 continental plates collide with each other
Down
  1. 1. Outermost, rigid layer of the Earth
  2. 2. The longest mid ocean ridge on the planet
  3. 3. Usually near tectonic plates a tremor in the Earths surface
  4. 4. when 2 plates collide with each other
  5. 6. Came up with the theory of Continental Drift
  6. 7. fractures in the earths crust
  7. 10. formed when 2 continental plates diverge
  8. 11. Line of volcanic islands formed by plates colliding and one plate sliding under the other
  9. 12. when 2 plates diverge from each other
  10. 15. when an oceanic plate slides under a continental plate