Earth Layers and Tectonic Plates
Across
- 3. Earth’s outer layer is broken into large, slowly moving pieces.
- 4. name of the continents that were joined into a single large landmass
- 6. The strong, lower part of the mantle.
- 8. layer located between the core and the crust.
- 10. happens at the bottom of an ocean as tectonic plates move apart
- 12. form where two plates collide.
- 13. The outermost, rigid layer of Earth and is made up of crust and upper mantle.
- 14. differences in density caused by variations
Down
- 1. A boundary at which two plates move past each other horizontally
- 2. two plates move away from each other.
- 5. a layer of weak or soft mantle that is made of rock that flows slowly.
- 7. Each piece of the lithosphere
- 9. Layer of the Earth that extends from below the mantle to the center of Earth
- 11. The outermost solid layer of Earth