Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. - The ring of fire borders the _______ plate.
  2. 4. - the place you go to check out books
  3. 10. - An app used to create short videos for entertainment.
  4. 11. - This boundary is when plates move away from each other.
  5. 13. - This occurs when plates shift suddenly and energy is released resulting in shaking of the crust.
  6. 14. - This forms at convergent boundaries when the plates converge and push upward.
  7. 16. - you are sitting in this right now
  8. 17. - This boundary is when plates slide past each other.
Down
  1. 1. - Midway's school mascot.
  2. 3. - this boundary is when plates move toward each other.
  3. 5. - The cell phone that apple makes
  4. 6. - This character of a popular tv show lives in a pineapple under the sea.
  5. 7. - The dense oceanic crust sinks below the less dense oceanic crust when plates converge.
  6. 8. - These are all along the ring of fire. They form at convergent boundaries where subduction occurs.
  7. 9. - ___________ crust is more dense than continental crust.
  8. 12. - __________ plates are pieces of the lithosphere that move and cause earthquakes, volcanoes, and mountains to form
  9. 15. - The _________ American plate is the tectonic plate we live on.