Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 2. creates a fault
  2. 4. forms from water being less dense and plates sliding underneath the more dense plate
  3. 7. divergent boundaries create this
  4. 13. cause of plate tectonics
  5. 15. causes trenches, faults, volcanoes
  6. 17. Boundary that causes Earthquakes
  7. 19. long narrow depressions on the seafloor that form when one plate is pushed beneath another
  8. 20. the rigid outer part of earth consisting of the earths crust
Down
  1. 1. Earths crust and upper mantle broken down into plates
  2. 3. plates that create trenches
  3. 5. Plate below ocean
  4. 6. upper layer of the earths Mantle
  5. 8. boundaries that move away from each other
  6. 9. how many plates are there?
  7. 10. fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock
  8. 11. how many boundaries are there
  9. 12. Lithosphere is ______ _____ then Asthenosphere
  10. 14. convection currents never
  11. 16. Plate below continent
  12. 18. forms from only convergent boundaries