Tectonic Plate Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. a long, narrow ditch
  2. 6. A supercontinent containing all of Earth's land that existed about 225 million years ago.
  3. 9. A type of convergent boundary where an oceanic plate is plunging beneath another, overriding plate
  4. 10. A type of current caused by the rising of heated fluid and sinking of cooled fluid
  5. 11. To drip through a small opening or to filter a liquid
  6. 12. water that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers
  7. 13. A break in the earth's crust
  8. 16. These plates are sections of the Earth's crust that move due to convection currents.
  9. 17. The soft layer of the mantle on which the lithosphere floats.
  10. 18. A split, break, or breach
  11. 19. Interval the difference in elevation from one contour line to the next
  12. 20. A natural feature of the Earth’s surface.
Down
  1. 2. A type of plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
  2. 3. A type of plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
  3. 4. Height above Sea Level
  4. 5. A rigid layer made up of the uppermost part of the mantle and the crust.
  5. 7. An ecosystem where all water runoff drains into a single body of water
  6. 8. A kind of map that shows the surface features of an area.
  7. 9. Image picture of Earth's surface taken from a satellite in orbit
  8. 10. The portion of the earth's crust that primarily contains granite, is less dense than oceanic crust, and is 20-50 km thick
  9. 14. A type of plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
  10. 15. Last name of a German Meteorologist who proposed the theory of continental drift (the idea that the continents were moving)
  11. 21. a body of permeable rock that can contain or transmit groundwater.