Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 2. Material closer to crust —-> cools —-> density increases —-> _____
  2. 4. The primary driving force for movement of tectonic plates
  3. 6. Super continent containing all of the existing continents
  4. 9. A chain of volcanic islands
  5. 11. elevated areas of the seafloor characterized by high heat flow and volcanism
  6. 13. How many lithospheric plates does earth have in total
  7. 14. How many segments is earths lithosphere broken up into
  8. 17. Material heated —-> density lowers —-> _____
  9. 18. Boundary Two plates pull apart
  10. 19. processes that deform earths crust to create major features
  11. 20. A narrow, Elongated depression of the sea
Down
  1. 1. Seven plates account for what percent of earths surface
  2. 3. A deep canyon like structure
  3. 5. Hypothesis that suggests that all continents were once a supercontinent
  4. 7. German meteorologist and geophysicist
  5. 8. The largest plate
  6. 10. Boundary Two plates move together
  7. 12. What way is heat continuously flowing from earths core
  8. 15. A continuous elevated zone on the floor of all major ocean basins
  9. 16. Plate boundary Two plates slide past one another