Tectonic Plates-Kelsey

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Across
  1. 1. Two plates slide horizontally past each other
  2. 10. Melted rock beneath Earth's surface
  3. 11. Large slabs of rock that slowly move continents (two words)
  4. 12. Very hot and dense center of the Earth
  5. 13. Melted rock on Earth's surface
  6. 14. A vent in Earth's surface through which magma erupts
  7. 16. Outermost layer of the Earth
  8. 17. Where two or more plates meet
  9. 18. One plate is pushed under another and destroyed
  10. 19. Super continent
  11. 21. Third planet from the sun
  12. 22. Sediment is pushed together and forms a rock (two words)
  13. 24. Two plates move apart from each other
  14. 25. long, narrow, deep area on ocean floor (two words)
  15. 26. Drop zone when two plates pull apart
Down
  1. 1. Huge wave caused by sudden shift on ocean floor
  2. 2. Scientist who came up with Theory of Continental Drift
  3. 3. Formed when two plates collide and push upwards (two words)
  4. 4. Raised mountain range under the ocean
  5. 5. Sedimentary and Igneous rock combined with extreme heat and pressure (two words)
  6. 6. Hot molten rock crystallizes and hardens (two words)
  7. 7. Two plates collide together
  8. 8. Crack or fracture in crust
  9. 9. This process forms new ocean floor and oceanic crust (two words)
  10. 15. Theory that Earth's continents were once one large land mass (two words)
  11. 20. Sudden and violent shaking of the ground
  12. 23. Layer of rock that lies between crust and outer core