Plate Tectonics & Crustal Features

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Across
  1. 2. A cast area of Earth's surface below ocean water; form and grow larger at a divergent boundary
  2. 5. Occurs when material in Earth's mantle rises and melts forming magma; don't move
  3. 7. Compression causes the hanging wall to slide up and over the footwall
  4. 8. Break in the rock of Earth's crust or mantle
  5. 9. Form when magma rises into the crust but is trapped and cannot break through the surface
  6. 12. Squeezes rock until it bends or breaks
  7. 14. Plates below the ocean
  8. 15. Pulls and stretches rock
  9. 17. Plates move apart
  10. 19. Form when two continental plates collide at a convergent boundary
  11. 20. Shearing causes one wall to move along the other
Down
  1. 1. Plates that make up the continents
  2. 3. Pushes rock in opposite direction
  3. 4. Tectonic plates move because of ________ currents in Earth's mantle
  4. 6. Plates move past each other in opposite directions
  5. 10. Occurs when stress builds up and is suddenly released
  6. 11. Plates move together
  7. 13. Chain of volcanic islands
  8. 16. Volcanoes form as ____ rises and fills the space that results when plates move apart
  9. 18. Tension causes one side of the fault to slip down relative to the other