Sea Floor Spreading and Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 4. freshwater reptile fossils found in South America and Africa
  2. 6. rocks formed when molten lava hardens quickly after an eruption underwater
  3. 7. continents moving slowly across Earths surface
  4. 8. mirrored pattern on both of the sides of the mid-ocean ridge that spread apart
  5. 9. any trace of an ancient living organism that's preserved in rock
  6. 11. plates colliding into one another
  7. 12. oceanic crust bending downward allowing part of the ocean floor to sink back into the mantle
  8. 13. occurs when the divergent boundary of continental to continental takes place
  9. 14. plates moving away from one another
  10. 15. ocean floor sinking beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle
  11. 16. fern like fossil found in South America, Africa, India, Antarctica, and Australia
  12. 17. plates sliding past one another
  13. 19. occurs when the divergent boundary of continental to oceanic takes place
  14. 20. device that used waves to measure distance to an object
Down
  1. 1. seams forming mountain ranges that rise up from the ocean floor
  2. 2. famous examples of a transform boundary
  3. 3. scientist who names the large landmass Pangaea
  4. 5. adding materials to the ocean floor forming a crack in the ocean
  5. 10. freshwater reptile fossils found in Africa, Asia, Antarctica, and India
  6. 18. name of the super continent