Tectonic Plates
Across
- 2. formed when oceanic plate clashes with a continental plate
- 4. when oceanic plates diverge
- 7. two plates that collide
- 8. Earths crust and upper mantle
- 10. two plates that are moving apart
- 11. the stationary point underground that heats magma ConvectionCurrent
- 14. when the denser plate slides over the less dense plate
- 16. when two continental plates diverge
- 17. plates below the continent
- 18. when two plates rub against each other causing an earthquake
- 20. the plastic layer below the lithosphere
Down
- 1. the lithosphere broken into sections called plates that move
- 3. when two oceanic plates diverge
- 5. when hot magma in the earth moves to the surface, cools, and sinks to reheat
- 6. when two continental plates clash
- 9. there are two ____
- 12. caused by two oceanic plates
- 13. plates below the ocean
- 15. oceanic ____
- 19. when plates rub together and cause friction