Plate Tectonics-Keaton Tsepas Bucciero Pick a Project

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Across
  1. 2. Convection in the __________ (what layer) causes the plates to move around.
  2. 4. A well known island arc in the Pacific Ocean.
  3. 6. Form from colliding ocean plate boundaries.
  4. 9. The layer below the lithosphere.
  5. 10. The ocean where most subduction zones are found.
  6. 11. Mid-Atlantic
  7. 13. Well known example of a fault at the California coast
  8. 16. Currents located in the mantle that drive plate movement.
  9. 18. Gravity pulls a plate under another
  10. 19. When two continental plates collide, these form.
Down
  1. 1. type of plate that pushes together
  2. 3. Where sea-floor spreading occurs.
  3. 5. Areas where the crust/lithosphere feeds back into the mantle at ocean trenches.
  4. 7. type of reptile fossil have they found in different places; helps to support Continental drift
  5. 8. type of plate that moves apart
  6. 12. type of plates that move horizontally past each other
  7. 14. An area where large numbers of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions occur in the basin of the Pacific Ocean.
  8. 15. layer that contains plates
  9. 16. Heat transfer through fluids in a circular motion.
  10. 17. Often form along a subducted slab.