plate tectonics

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Across
  1. 1. breaks in the earth's crust
  2. 4. a large body of water
  3. 6. the uppermost part of the mantle
  4. 7. a mountain that erupts
  5. 8. heat transfer from air currents
  6. 9. any trace of an ancient organism preserved in rock
  7. 11. earth's plates that are in slow constant motion
  8. 12. deep underwater canyons
  9. 13. plates collide
  10. 18. german scientist who discovered that the continents were together at one point
  11. 19. pieces of earth separated by cracks
  12. 21. plates slip past eachother
Down
  1. 2. a process where the ocean floor sinks in the mantle
  2. 3. how much mass there is in a given amount of volume
  3. 5. a process that adds new material to the ocean floor
  4. 10. a layer of hot rock
  5. 14. forms when pieces of earth's crust diverge on land
  6. 15. plates come together
  7. 16. - an idea that continents slowly move
  8. 17. underwater ocean ranges
  9. 20. a supercontinent that existed 2 million years ago