Plate Boundaries

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Across
  1. 2. hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling.
  2. 3. a geologic process in which tectonic plates—large slabs of Earth's lithosphere—split apart from each other.
  3. 6. places where two or more plates move toward each other
  4. 7. a broad zone forming as the Pacific Plate slides northwestward past the North American Plate.
  5. 9. one plate slides beneath the other plate
  6. 10. a narrow excavation (in relation to its length) made below the surface of the ground
Down
  1. 1. plate boundaries are where the tectonic plates are moving towards each other.
  2. 4. occur along the kind of plate boundary where new ocean floor is created as the plates spread apart
  3. 5. when two tectonic plates move away from each other
  4. 8. type of divergent boundary where three tectonic plates meet at about 120° angles