Plate Tectonics Vocab Quiz

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Across
  1. 2. Four words, theory that states that the Earth’s crust is broken into ridged plates that move slowly over the Earth’s surface.
  2. 5. Form when magma erupts where plates separate along mid-ocean ridges or where continents collide and subduct.
  3. 7. Rapid releases of stress energy that results in vibrations in the ground that result in movement in the lithosphere.
  4. 8. Type of plate boundary where plates slide against each other.
  5. 9. Two words, a large, rigid slab of solid rock that is formed from the lithosphere.
  6. 11. Scientist who proposed the Theory of Continental Drift.
  7. 12. Two words, pulling forces that exist at divergent plate boundaries.
Down
  1. 1. Two words, squeezing forces that exist at convergent plate boundaries.
  2. 3. Location where one plate sinks below another.
  3. 4. Type of plate boundary where plates spread apart.
  4. 6. Two words, side-by-side dragging forces that exist at transform plate boundaries.
  5. 10. Type of plate boundary where plates come together.