Continental Drift, Plate Tectonics, and Faults

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Across
  1. 3. How many cm the plates average in moving per year
  2. 6. bottom part of the crust
  3. 8. a boundary where plates come together with another
  4. 10. a famous fault in the North American plate in this state
  5. 11. the large land area that means all earth
  6. 13. nickname for the area around the Pacific plate
  7. 14. number of large plates on the earth
  8. 15. a boundary where plates pull apart from another
Down
  1. 1. the German scientist responsible for continental drift
  2. 2. top part of the crust
  3. 4. a freshwater dinosaur/fossil
  4. 5. South America looks like it fits under this continent
  5. 7. a boundary that slips past
  6. 9. The occupation of the man who proposed the cont. drift theory
  7. 12. largest plate on the planet