Earth's Interior: Day 12 Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. a tectonic plate that is mostly a continent
  2. 7. where plates pull apart from each other
  3. 9. layers of earth that are made of different materials and separated by their densities
  4. 11. the name of the super continent, all the continents together
  5. 12. a field that protects our earth from charged rays from the sun and cosmic radiation
  6. 14. found in the asthenosphere where cooler temperature magma is pushed down to be heated and then rises
  7. 16. outermost layer of earth that is brittle rocky and where we live
  8. 17. found under the lithosphere but above the lower mantel made up of hot rocks the flow very slowly
Down
  1. 1. where one plate sinks into the mantel under the other
  2. 2. where pates move towards each other and collide
  3. 3. where plates slide past each other
  4. 4. the structure of earth's crust that hold certain plates
  5. 5. the most dense layer center of the earth mostly made up of iron and nickel
  6. 6. layers of earth that move and act due to the rigidity strength and pressure
  7. 8. mass er volume of something used to help determine where things would go
  8. 10. found under the crust which is very hot but still a solid
  9. 13. a tectonic plat the consists mainly of the ocean
  10. 15. vibrations generated by abrupt movements within earth