Tectonic plates

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Across
  1. 4. waves released when plate tectonics move
  2. 5. The area around the pacific plate with lots of volcanic activity
  3. 6. normal faults occur when rocks are
  4. 9. the force causing the continents to move
  5. 10. an ocean getting smaller because of subduction the process when old sea floor goes into the mantle from trenches and gets recycled
  6. 13. a boundary where the plates come together
  7. 15. liquid in the mantle
  8. 18. a boundary where the tectonic plates move away from each other
  9. 19. are like a mountain but sometimes magma will come out
Down
  1. 1. the process in which new ocean crust is created at mid-ocean ridges
  2. 2. is the name of the supercontinent that has over time come apart
  3. 3. the fault line under Missouri
  4. 7. Old ocean floor gets destroyed in
  5. 8. the one who first discovered the continental drift
  6. 11. The theory that the plates were once a large landmass that has moved to their current locations is known as
  7. 12. a movement of the earth-shaking
  8. 14. an ocean growing because of seafloor spreading
  9. 16. cause volcanos, mountains, and hills to form
  10. 17. a boundary where the plates rub against each other