Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 2. A natural crack or fracture in the Earth's crust.
  2. 6. The force that drives plate tectonics.
  3. 7. A huge section of Earth's lithosphere.
  4. 9. A type of boundary where two plates are pulling apart.
  5. 11. The layer of Earth that flows like a liquid.
  6. 13. - The theory that explains the movement of Earth's plates.
  7. 15. The type of boundary where plates collide.
  8. 16. The energy stored in rocks before an earthquake occurs.
Down
  1. 1. boundary where two plates move toward each other.
  2. 3. The outermost layer of Earth’s interior.
  3. 4. When one plate sinks beneath another at a convergent boundary.
  4. 5. The movement of continents over time, as proposed by Wegener.
  5. 8. Earth's outermost layer.
  6. 10. Deep oceanic trenches occur at these convergent boundaries.
  7. 12. The process of new crust formation at divergent boundaries.
  8. 14. A plate boundary where plates slide past each other.