Tectonic Plates

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Across
  1. 2. A minor plate in the northern and eastern hemisphere.
  2. 3. Covers almost all of Africa.
  3. 5. Only plate that is touched by 5 other plates.
  4. 7. Where tectonic plates are found.
  5. 9. Named after the region of southern Peru.
  6. 11. Lies beneath the Pacific Ocean.
  7. 14. A massive, odd shape of solid rock found in the lithosphere.
  8. 15. A plate that's in most of the southern, and some of the eastern hemisphere.
  9. 17. Contains most of the countries of Eurasia.
Down
  1. 1. Named after a man named Ioannis Phokas.
  2. 2. Cover Antarctica.
  3. 4. When plates slide away from each other.
  4. 6. A boundary that has two or more plates that collide and subduct.
  5. 8. Lies beneath the Philippine sea.
  6. 10. Lies under the subcontinent of India.
  7. 12. Lies under the Caribbean Islands.
  8. 13. When plates slide past each other.
  9. 16. Surrounded by the South American plate and the Antarctic plate.
  10. 18. American Lies under South America.
  11. 19. Covers most of North America, Greenland, Cuba, the Bahamas, and parts of Iceland.