Plate Tectonics Vocabulary Review

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