Plate Tectonics Vocabulary Review

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Across
  1. 4. Convergent boundary where an oceanic plate is pushed beneath a continental plate forming a trench.
  2. 5. valley Caused by divergent continental plates
  3. 6. Caused when two transform plates slide past each other
  4. 11. forms above and near subduction zones.
  5. 12. type of plate boundary where two plates slide past each other
  6. 13. elevations along a contour line are ___.
  7. 14. Makes up the crust and upper mantle; what the tectonic plates are composed of
Down
  1. 1. A deep depression of the sea floor caused by the subduction of one plate under another
  2. 2. Formed when two continental convergent plates collide and the crust crumbles.
  3. 3. Plastic-like layer below the lithosphere. Convection currents here cause the tectonic plates to move.
  4. 7. type of plate boundary where plates move away from each other
  5. 8. A crack in the Earth's crust where rocks slide past one another
  6. 9. type of plate boundary where two plates collide
  7. 10. Supercontinent