Earth's History: Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 4. boundary A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
  2. 6. The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
  3. 8. ridge An underwater moutain chain where new ocean floor is formed
  4. 11. Greatness of size, strength, or importance
  5. 12. Magma that reaches Earth's surface
  6. 13. The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath Earth's surface.
Down
  1. 1. boundary A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
  2. 2. boundary A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
  3. 3. spreading The process by which molten material adds new oceanic crust to the ocean floor
  4. 5. A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor.
  5. 7. A break in the earth's crust
  6. 8. Molten rock beneath the earth's surface
  7. 9. volcano A volcano that has not erupted for a long time, but may erupt again one day.
  8. 10. trench Deep valley in the ocean floor that forms along a subduction zone
  9. 14. spot An area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust above it