Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. Boundary where crust is destroyed
  2. 9. The strongest ones happen at convergent boundaries
  3. 10. One plate going underneath the other during convergence
  4. 11. Boundary where crust is neither created nor destroyed
  5. 12. A chain of volcanoes made at ocean-ocean convergent
  6. 16. The theorizer of continental drift
  7. 17. Diverging plates' weight speeds up their separation
  8. 18. Another name for convergent boundary
  9. 20. A boundary where plates slide past each other
Down
  1. 1. Occurs at oceanic divergent boundaries
  2. 2. A boundary where plates move away from each other
  3. 3. This is never created at transform boundaries
  4. 4. How mantle magma moves plates
  5. 6. A subducting plate's weight speeds up its own descent
  6. 7. Occurs at continental divergent boundaries
  7. 8. Are created at all convergent boundaries
  8. 13. Boundary where crust is created
  9. 14. A boundary where plates move toward each other
  10. 15. The location where plates meet
  11. 19. A deep-sea phenomenon found only at subduction zones involving ocean