Plate tectonics

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Across
  1. 2. occurs when two tectonics plates slide past each other.
  2. 7. Huge pieces of lithosphere that slowly move on the asthenosphere.
  3. 9. the two different plates that have contact.
  4. 10. occurs when two tectonics plates move toward each other and collide.
Down
  1. 1. occurs when two tectonics plates move away from each other.
  2. 3. A region within the earths mantle from heat rises through the process of convection. formed the hawaii islands.
  3. 4. a geological process where one tectonic plate slides beneath another at a convergent plate boundary.
  4. 5. the sudden release of strain energy in the Earth's crust, resulting in waves of shaking that radiate outwards from the earthquake source.
  5. 6. The Supercontinent that formed 300 million years ago and that began to break apart 200 million years ago.
  6. 8. A vent or fissure in earths surface through which magma and gases are expelled.