Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 9. famous transform boundary in California
  2. 10. True or False,Alfred Wegener used evidence from land features, fossils, and climate to support his theory of continental drift
  3. 11. what forms at a subduction zone
  4. 12. two converging continental plates form this geological feature
  5. 13. currents in what cause tectonic plates to move
  6. 16. Most geologists of Wegener’s time accepted his idea of drifting continents
  7. 17. tectonic plates that move towards each other
  8. 18. tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
  9. 19. 2 tectonic plates sliding by each other
Down
  1. 1. who came up with the theory that the continents moved
  2. 2. before the continents, moved what was the super continent called
  3. 3. this feature is found on continents at a divergent boundary
  4. 4. process that causes tectonic plates to move
  5. 5. which type of crust is more dense
  6. 6. when one tectonic plate goes underneath another plate
  7. 7. divergent plates underneath the ocean cause this
  8. 8. fossils of what plant provided evidence for Wegener’s hypothesis for continental drift
  9. 14. these geological features form when one tectonic plate subducts under another plate
  10. 15. who came up with the theory of plate tectonics
  11. 17. which type of crust is older