Continental Drift & Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 4. A giant wave.
  2. 5. Earths tectonic plates drive back into the mantle.
  3. 7. Two tectonic plates sliding past each other.
  4. 9. A big shake in the ground.
  5. 10. When two tectonic plates move away from each other.
  6. 11. A path around the Pacific ocean, characterized by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes.
  7. 14. The rising and cooling of liquids.
  8. 15. When two tectonic plates come together.
Down
  1. 1. A chain of volcanoes thousand miles long is that form a subduction zone.
  2. 2. Geological process in which tectonic plates split apart from each other.
  3. 3. Massive slab of solid rock made up of Earth’s lithosphere.
  4. 6. Openings or vents where it lava and steam irrupt onto the earths surface.
  5. 8. Long, narrow, depressions on the seafloor.
  6. 12. A large piece of earth sliding off a cliff.
  7. 13. A large plume of hot mantle material from deep within earth.