Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 4. Two plates moving past each other in horizontal motion- called a __ boundary.
  2. 5. A long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance.
  3. 7. A large natural elevation of the earth's surface rising abruptly from the surrounding level; a large steep hill.
  4. 8. Massive slabs of solid rock made up of Earth's lithosphere (crust and upper mantle)
  5. 11. The theory proposed in 1912 (Wegner's Continental __)
  6. 14. Produced from the melted rock deep in the subduction zone.
  7. 15. Two plates colliding together called a __ boundary.
Down
  1. 1. An act of changing physical location or position or of having this changed.
  2. 2. A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust.
  3. 3. The process, condition, or result of being covered by glaciers or ice sheets.
  4. 6. The Super-continent on Earth 200 million years ago
  5. 9. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
  6. 10. Two plates moving apart is called a __ boundary.
  7. 12. The motion involved in a transform boundary.
  8. 13. The title someone who holds while professionally studying plate tectonics