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