Plate Boundaries Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. → Convergent boundary feature formed by oceanic-oceanic collision (e.g., island arcs).
  2. 5. → The Earth’s rigid outer shell broken into plates.
  3. 6. → Type of crust created at divergent boundaries.
  4. 7. → Deep underwater valleys formed at convergent boundaries.
  5. 9. → Convergent boundary where oceanic plate sinks below continental plate.
  6. 10. → A type of boundary where no magma or volcanoes form, only earthquakes.
  7. 13. → Boundary where plates slide past each other horizontally.
  8. 14. → Plates move toward each other, forming mountains or trenches.
  9. 15. → Zone of earthquakes caused by transform boundaries.
  10. 16. → Example of transform boundary in California.
Down
  1. 1. → Plates move away from each other, forming new crust.
  2. 2. → Large cracks in the Earth’s crust where movement occurs.
  3. 4. → Plate movement type creating rift valleys in Africa.
  4. 8. → Area where two continental plates pull apart forming valleys.
  5. 11. → The process that produces new oceanic crust.
  6. 12. → Theory that explains movement of Earth’s plates.