Plate Tectonics
Across
- 5. zone the region where an oceanic plate sinks down into the asthenosphere
- 7. a break in the Earth's crust along which two blocks of the crust slide
- 8. core the solid, dense center of the Earth
- 9. coming closer together
- 10. the rising of regions of the Earth's crust to higher elevations
- 11. drift the theory that continents can drift apart from one another and have in the past
Down
- 1. plate a piece of the lithosphere that moves around on top the asthenosphere
- 2. outer layer of the Earth
- 3. the center part of the Earth
- 4. develop in different directions
- 6. the layer of Earth between the crust and the core