Plate Tectonics Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. Many volcanoes in a chain together (such as Mount Fuji)
  2. 5. The shaking of Earths surface due to a sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves
  3. 9. When heated mantle material is rising from deep inside the mantle, while cooler mantle material sinks, creating a convection current throughout the Mantle
  4. 10. Hot material beneath Earth's Crust that forms magma or other rock materials when cool
  5. 11. Where pieces of Earths crust diverges on land (a deep valley)
  6. 12. the idea that continents slowly move over Earth's surface
  7. 13. Tectonic Plates that slip past each other
  8. 15. The thickest layer of the Earth that contains convection currents
  9. 16. Breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slip past each other
  10. 17. The process in which a mid ocean ridge continually adds new material to the ocean floor
  11. 18. Theory in which Earth's plates are in slow constant motion, driven by convection currents in Earth's mantle
  12. 19. the process in which old ocean floor falls into a deep ocean trench back into the mantle (Turning back into magma)
Down
  1. 1. a trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock
  2. 2. The material at the bottom of the ocean
  3. 3. Tectonic plates that move apart from each other
  4. 6. Tectonic Plates that come together
  5. 7. a supercontinent that existed about 300 million years ago
  6. 8. deep underwater canyon in which old sea floor falls into during subduction
  7. 14. Pieces of Earth's crust
  8. 15. a formed mountain range that runs along the middle of some ocean floors (Looks like seams)