Tectonic Plate Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. crust that contains mostly land
  2. 4. long, deep formation on the ocean floor that develops where two tectonic plates are moving toward each other and one is moving under the other
  3. 6. the crust that lies beneath the ocean
  4. 8. the later of Earth below the crust
  5. 10. location where two tectonic plates meet and are moving away from each other
  6. 11. location where two tectonic plates meet and are moving toward each other
  7. 12. a mountain like landform that develops when tectonic plates move apart or separate and a new ocean lithosphere forms
Down
  1. 1. the valley formed by a diverging plate boundary
  2. 3. location where two tectonic plates meet and slides past each other
  3. 5. a theory that the lithosphere is broken into segments or plates, that "float" on the asthenosphere, and that interacting among these plates are associated with earthquakes
  4. 7. Earth's outermost layer
  5. 9. the process by which one plate of the lithosphere sinks and slides under another