Tectonic Plates

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Across
  1. 4. crust being pushed underneath more crust and recycling it.
  2. 7. arcs being made by subduction.
  3. 8. two tectonic plates spreading apart.
  4. 9. the lower level of the mantle.
  5. 12. a crustal result that occurs after a transform boundary happens.
  6. 15. magma coming out of mid-ocean ridges.
Down
  1. 1. the movement of continents over thousands of years.
  2. 2. the action of two or more objects going underneath one another.
  3. 3. the peak that is made by two tectonic plates being pushed together.
  4. 5. two tectonic plates coming together.
  5. 6. when two plates move away from each other, resulting in the ground opening up.
  6. 10. two tectonic plates moving opposite directions, but grinding against each other.
  7. 11. the upper level of the mantle.
  8. 13. when a divergent boundary occurs once two plates spread out; seafloor spreading.
  9. 14. the original formation of continents; the continents once being together.