Plate Tetonics

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