Across
- 3. type of plate boundary where plates move together
- 5. type of rock that makes up continental plates
- 6. create island chains away from plate boundaries
- 8. type of rock that makes up oceanic plates
- 9. created when an oceanic plate subducts underneath a continental plate
- 10. process that occurs when plates move apart underneath the ocean
- 13. flexible, viscous liquid of the mantle
- 15. molten rock, hot gas, or ash erupts through Earth's surface.
- 16. type of plate boundary where plates move past each other
Down
- 1. pushes the mantle's soft rock up as it warms and down as it cools.
- 2. type of plate boundary where plates move apart
- 4. upper more solid portion of the mantle and crust
- 7. when a tectonic plate sinks below another tectonic plate
- 11. sudden mass wasting
- 12. huge volumes of water are displaced and travel miles across the ocean
- 14. release of energy along a transform plate boundary