Plate tectonics Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. The bending of rock layers
  2. 7. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction
  3. 10. Pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere
  4. 12. Layer between the crust and the core
  5. 14. Outermost layer of the Earth
  6. 15. New lithosphere is created here
  7. 17. An instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes, such as force and duration
  8. 18. A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust
Down
  1. 1. Solid, dense center of the Earth
  2. 2. Boundary between two plates moving away from each other
  3. 4. Boundary between two colliding plates
  4. 5. The rigid outer part of the earth
  5. 6. The upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere
  6. 8. Liquid layer of the Earth's core
  7. 9. Boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other
  8. 11. A break in the Earth's crust
  9. 13. A record produced by a seismograph
  10. 16. Supercontinent that existed approximately 335 million years ago