Layers of the Earth
Across
- 4. outside the inner core
- 8. what something (specifically the earth) is made up of or composed of or the original layers of the earth
- 9. the tectonic plates move away from eachother
- 12. the mechanical layers of the earth
- 14. the thickest layer of the earth
- 15. the border of a tectonic plate
- 18. created by Alfred Wegner that proposed the idea of plate tectonis
- 19. The thinnest layer of the Earth
- 20. plates move against eachother
Down
- 1. large slabs of rock that moves at 2cm per year
- 2. the older seafloor pushes outwards to make room for the new seafloor
- 3. it's below the lithoshpere and takes up most of the mantle
- 5. the largest mechanical layer of the earth
- 6. plates are moving towards each other
- 7. the innermost layer of the core
- 10. the result of a transform boundary
- 11. high tension
- 13. the uppermost layer of the earth that includes the crust and part of the mantle
- 16. the continents were once pangea and then drifted apart
- 17. the innermost layer of the earth