Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 5. Where two tectonic plates meet and the denser one bends and slides underneath the other.
  2. 9. An _______can occur at all plate boundaries
  3. 10. Created at a divergent boundary, as the plates spread apart, magma rises and new ocean floor is created.
  4. 11. A depression in the ground that is very deep, formed at the subduction zone in near an oceanic plate.
  5. 12. Are formed when molten rock (magma) deep within the earth, erupts, and piles upon the surface formed by a convergent oceanic-oceanic boundary.
Down
  1. 1. Two continental plates move apart.
  2. 2. A crack in the Earth's crust where the plates are moving past each other causing friction; earthquakes.
  3. 3. Formed by a convergent continental-continental boundary.
  4. 4. Plates moving towards each other.
  5. 6. Plates sliding past each other.
  6. 7. Plates moving away from each other.
  7. 8. _______ is why continents are drifting away over time.