Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 4. Created when two continental plates hit each other
  2. 5. Area under the crust
  3. 10. This tectonic plate holds North America
  4. 11. Thin crust under the ocean
  5. 12. Plates move apart
  6. 13. Rocky,rigid upper mantle
  7. 16. Outermost layer of the Earth
  8. 17. Thick layer of the Earth's suface
  9. 20. Collide to create volcanoes and mountain ranges
  10. 22. Plates scrape against each other
  11. 24. A peson who specializes in rocks
  12. 25. This tectonic plate holds india
  13. 26. Gaps between tectonic plates
  14. 27. Caused by seismic activity
  15. 28. It is formed when one plate slips under another and there is a dip
  16. 30. Below the lithosphere and it is more fluid
  17. 32. Ring of volcanoes in the Pacific Ocean
  18. 33. This tectonic plate holds the Pacific ocean and island too
Down
  1. 1. Current carrying the heat from the inside of the Earth to the Crust
  2. 2. Creates trenches and underwater volcanoes
  3. 3. A group of continents
  4. 6. A rupture in the Earth's surface
  5. 7. Two plates meet and one slides under
  6. 8. Plates push into each other
  7. 9. This tectonic plate holds South America
  8. 14. This tectonic plate holds Austrialian
  9. 15. This tectonic plate has Antarctica on it
  10. 18. It disassembled Pangea
  11. 19. Downward pull on a plate because it has heated up
  12. 21. This tectonic plate has Europe and Asia on it
  13. 23. Discovered tectonic plates
  14. 29. When something is pushed together
  15. 30. This tectonic plate holds Africa
  16. 31. Friction between Lithosphere and Asthenosphere