Tectonic Plates

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Across
  1. 2. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
  2. 4. is a geological features that forms at a subduction zone.
  3. 6. A geological feature that happens when 2 converging continental plates form.
  4. 7. valley A feature that is found on continents at a divergent boundary
  5. 8. Trench a long, narrow depression in the ocean floor that's formed by the
  6. 11. An area of fracturing between rocks resulting from stress.
  7. 13. when the plates move away from each other.
  8. 14. the outermost layer of the planet
  9. 15. the bending of rock layers due to stress in the Earth's crust.
  10. 16. a region where two plates are being pulled away from each other.
  11. 18. the center of the Earth
  12. 19. is formed on cooling.
  13. 21. are geological features that form when one tectonic plates subducts under another
  14. 22. These currents cause the tectonic plates to move.
Down
  1. 1. of tectonic plates.
  2. 3. when one tectonic plates goes underneath another plate.
  3. 5. - a sudden shaking of the ground that occurs when the Earth's crust releases
  4. 9. Process that causes tectonic plates to move.
  5. 10. boundary the edge where two pla
  6. 12. 2 tectonic plates sliding by each other.
  7. 14. Tectonic plates that move towards each other.
  8. 17. energy
  9. 20. hot fluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous