Plate Tectonic Boundaries & Features

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Across
  1. 2. scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created
  2. 6. the rocky outer part of Earth.
  3. 9. When two plates come together
  4. 11. places where plates slide sideways past each other
  5. 13. the ancient supercontinent,
  6. 14. the result of seawater percolating down through fissures in the ocean crust in the vicinity of spreading centers or subduction zones
  7. 15. plates that are located beneath the ocean.
Down
  1. 1. the formation of new areas of oceanic crust
  2. 3. a tectonic plate that consists primarily of continental crust.
  3. 4. long, narrow depressions on the seafloor.
  4. 5. occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other.
  5. 7. states the movement of tectonic plates,
  6. 8. occur along the kind of plate boundary where new ocean floor is created as the plates spread apart.
  7. 10. the first person to formulate a complete statement of the continental drift hypothesis.
  8. 12. when an oceanic plate runs into a continental plate and slides beneath it.