Owen’s Plate Tectonics Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. 2 plates moving apart
  2. 4. Plates under the ocean
  3. 6. The theory that continents were once joined together in a single landmass and have since drifted apart.
  4. 8. Where the less dense plate slides under the mor dense plate
  5. 9. Hot magma rises to the surface then cools and falls back down to the core
  6. 15. An underwater mountain system formed by plate tectonics where new oceanic crust is created through volcanic activity
  7. 16. The denser layer below the Lithosphere
  8. 18. Parts of the earth that come up and create large masses of land
  9. 19. 2 plates merging together
  10. 20. what comes out of a volcano
Down
  1. 1. Plates under the continents
  2. 2. The deepest points in the ocean
  3. 5. Boundary between 2 plates sliding past each other which causes…
  4. 7. The Earths upper mantle and crust
  5. 10. Lava comes from a certain mountain with a big hole on top
  6. 11. A linear-shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges created by the action of a divergent boundary
  7. 12. Cracks in the earth's crust along which there is movement
  8. 13. 2 plates sliding against each other and creates friction
  9. 14. The broken up lithosphere, moving around and shifting
  10. 17. 2 oceanic plates moving apart