Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 3. Famous mountain range formed by 2 continental plates converging into each other
  2. 6. Plate boundary where 2 plates slide past each other
  3. 9. Plate boundary where 2 plates move towards each other
  4. 10. When one plate is pushed under another
  5. 11. Place under the crust where magma sits and creates volcanoes
  6. 14. A piece of lithosphere that can move
  7. 15. Layer of the Earth that is broken up into massive sections
  8. 16. Occur where 2 plates are sliding past each other
  9. 17. Where 2 plates meet
Down
  1. 1. The most well known example of a transform boundary
  2. 2. Plate boundary where 2 plates move away from each other
  3. 4. The movement of the plates
  4. 5. Occur where 2 plates are converging or diverging
  5. 7. The thicker of the 2 types of plates
  6. 8. The deepest place in the Earth's lithosphere
  7. 12. The thinner of the 2 types of plates
  8. 13. The scientist who came up with the Continental Drift theory