Plate Tectonics Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. The combination of the continental drift and seafloor spreading theories
  2. 4. The process of forcing one tectonic plate under another
  3. 10. Alfred Wegener's theory
  4. 14. The result of sudden plate movement
  5. 15. The theory that proposes convection in the mantle as the means of moving tectonic plates
  6. 16. The outer part of Earth's crust composed of solid rock
Down
  1. 1. Similar ____ of plants and animals were found on continents separated by oceans
  2. 3. The Earth's magnetic is created by ____ in the outer core
  3. 5. The zone below the lithosphere, more "plastic" than the lithosphere thus easier to bend
  4. 6. S. America's east coast fits like a puzzle piece to this continent's West cost
  5. 7. Scratches in bedrock of neighboring continents were left by these
  6. 8. Places where new seafloor is being created
  7. 9. This type of plate boundary is where new seafloor is created
  8. 11. The deepest parts of the ocean
  9. 12. The most outer solid portion of the Earth
  10. 13. This is created when 2 continental plates converge