Tectonic Plates

3. ____ is a high-energy wave caused by an earthquake, volcano, landslide or other natural event that displaces and distributes energy through the ocean waters.
5. the theory that once all the continents were joined in a super-continent, which scientists call Pangaea.
8. When one tectonic plate falls under another.
10. occurs at mid-ocean ridges, where new oceanic crust is formed through volcanic activity and then gradually moves away from the ridge.
12. __ is a place where two tectonic plates are moving toward each other and colliding.

1. scientific theory that describes the large-scale motion of Earth's lithosphere.
2. There are three types of this
4. There's one near Puerto Rico
5. What the continents sit on
6. the transfer of heat by the movement of large groups of particles frome one place to another.
7. locations where two plates slide past one another
9. a boundary where the tectonic plates are moving apart.
11. A deep rift valley formed by the divergent, extending the length of the mid-ocean ridge and the site of frequent volcanic activity.
13. Something major that happened in Haiti