Plate motion
Across
- 4. a layer of the interior of the Earth
- 11. liquid, iron-nickel layer of the Earth between the solid inner core and lower mantle
- 12. a large body of water on the earths outer layer
- 14. the mostly solid bulk of Earth's interior.
- 15. a sudden shaking of the ground
- 16. when two plates slide
- 18. the dense center of Earth
- 19. two plates going towards each other
Down
- 1. driven cycles that occur in the air, ocean, and mantle
- 2. a portion of the Earth's mantle that flows like molten plastic despite being solid.
- 3. the solid, outer part of Earth
- 5. a large extinct marine reptile
- 6. the part of the Earth's crust that makes up the seafloor
- 7. the layer of granitic, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks, which form the continents and the areas of shallow seabed close to their shores
- 8. the liquid inner layer of the earth from 400 to 1,800 miles below the surface
- 9. two plates moving away from each other
- 10. a large continuous mass of land conventionally regarded as a collective region
- 13. Areas where the plates meet
- 17. explodes magma out of the top of this