Ged Miller Plate Tectonics Crossword

3. a boundary in which two plates slide past each other without creating or destroying lithosphere
6. a destructive plate margin where oceanic crust is being pushed down into the mantle beneath a second plate
8. the process by which plate tectonics produces new oceanic lithosphere at ocean ridges
9. a continuous elevated zone on the floor of all the major ocean basins and varying in width from 1000 to 4000 kilometers

1. the permanent magnetization acquired by rock that can be used to determine the location of the magnetic poles at the time it became magnetized
2. a boundary in which two plates move together
4. a region where the rigid plates are moving apart,typified by the oceanic ridges
5. It involves the oceanic lithosphere sliding down the oceanic ridge under the pull of gravity
7. super continent that 200 million years ago began to break apart and form the present landmasses
10. deep faulted structure found along the axes of divergent plate boundaries