Plate Tectonic Boundaries & Features

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Across
  1. 4. When plates split apart from each other.
  2. 6. Two plates moving past each other in opposite directions creating friction.
  3. 9. Formed primarily by convergent plate boundaries.
  4. 10. Outermost layer of the Earth's crust.
  5. 12. The process where large plates of the Earth's crust constantly move over the mantle's fluid.
  6. 14. Where cold sea water seeps into the Earth's crust and gets heated by the magma.
  7. 15. A mountain range with a central valley on an ocean floor. (Divergent)
Down
  1. 1. Process where one lithospheric plate slides below another at a convergent plate boundary.
  2. 2. Formed by divergent plate boundaries.
  3. 3. Two plates that move away from each other.
  4. 5. Two plates or more come together.
  5. 7. A long, narrow and deep depression on the ocean floor with relatively steep sides. (Convergent)
  6. 8. A theory supporting the possibility that continents are able to move over Earth's surface.
  7. 11. A single landmass of all of Earth's continents.
  8. 13. Wegener, A German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist who proposed the theory of continental drift.