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Plate Tectonics Crossword

Horizontales
Supercontinent that existed 750 mil. to 1.1 bil. years ago
Locations where two tectonic plates meet
The scientific theory that the Earth's surface is made of very large sections that move very slowly
Crack in the Earth's crust
Magma rises beneath a continent, which causes thinning, breaking, and splitting
Causes movement of plates of lithosphere; within mantle
What the surface of the Earth is broken up into
Came together as a set of continent-continent convergent plate boundaries; still breaking as continents move apart
What the plates are made of; divided into a dozen major and a few minor plates
To move towards (Plates of this type of boundary move towards each other)
Very large igneous intrusion extending deep in the earth's crust.
Verticales
Does not take place at plate boundaries but within a plate
To change form (Plates of this type of boundary slip past each other)
Small quakes that occur a few seconds to a few weeks before a major quake
Geographic area surrounding the edges of the Pacific Ocean
The mostly solid bulk of the Earth's interior
Upper layer of the Earth's mantle, below lithosphere
Takes place as plates move apart from each other at mid-ocean ridges; driven by mantle convection
Two plates move past each other in opposite directions
The process in which oceanic crust converges with continental crust and the denser oceanic plate plunges beneath the continental plate
The point on Earth's surface directly above the place where an earthquake occurs
Outermost layer of a planet
Moving away from (Plates of this type of boundary move away from each other)
Release of pressure causes melting near the surface, which forms this