Tectonic Plates

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Across
  1. 1. Solid, outer layer of the Earth
  2. 7. Caused by a release of energy when plates grind across each other
  3. 9. Place where two plates meet
  4. 13. Produced by magma and gas rising from the mantle to the surface
  5. 14. Plates moving towards each other
  6. 15. More dense plate of crust
  7. 16. Caused by continental plates colliding
  8. 17. Deepest ocean trench in the world
Down
  1. 2. One plate diving underneath another one
  2. 3. Tallest mountain range in the world
  3. 4. Caused by the low point above a subduction zone; ocean plate
  4. 5. ________ of Continental Drift
  5. 6. Plates sliding side-by-side
  6. 8. One of the structures produced by sea floor spreading
  7. 10. Plates moving away from each other
  8. 11. Magma filled layer of the Earth under the crust
  9. 12. Less dense plate of crust