Earth Science Vocabulary Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. The boundaries where plates meet.
  2. 3. The innermost part of the earth is 9000 degrees and made up of iron and nickel.
  3. 5. When two plates move past each other in opposite directions.
  4. 6. Holds the tectonic plates and is in between the mantle and the crust.
  5. 8. When a plate meets essentially on the beach
  6. 10. Crust on the bottom of the ocean.
  7. 14. The third layer of the earth from out to all solid.
  8. 15. When two plates are pushing against each other.
  9. 16. Both plates are on the ocean and meet in the ocean.
  10. 17. Both plates are on land and meet on land.
  11. 18. When one plate goes under another, generally ocean crust slides under continental.
  12. 19. Breaks in the earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other.
Down
  1. 1. In the upper mantle just below the lithosphere (consistency of rubber or cement)
  2. 4. Tectonic events that are caused by movement of the plates
  3. 7. Consequences of continental drift or plates connecting and the reason why volcanoes and earthquakes happen.
  4. 9. Fifth part of the earth from out to in 6000 degrees composed of iron and nickel liquid.
  5. 11. The outermost of the earth.
  6. 12. Tectonic events where lava and magma is getting spit out
  7. 13. Crust on land.
  8. 17. When gasses or liquids move at the temperature they are at.