Plate Tectonics Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Landform created when plates push against each other.
  2. 4. Type of boundary that 2 plates slide past each other.
  3. 5. When a plate is pulled under another into the mantle.
  4. 6. What the lithosphere is broken into.
  5. 8. Another name for the crust.
  6. 11. Around sliding boundaries, this event shakes the ground as the plates release their tension.
  7. 13. Another name for the mantle.
  8. 14. Type of boundary that 2 plates push together.
  9. 18. The liquid layer of the core.
  10. 19. Top layer of the Earth.
Down
  1. 2. The solid layer of the core.
  2. 3. Theory that supported the breaking up of Pangaea.
  3. 6. Supercontinent's name before it split up.
  4. 7. This is the melted rock under the surface.
  5. 9. Earth layer made of magma.
  6. 10. Type of boundary that 2 plates move away from each other.
  7. 12. Where the edges of plates meet.
  8. 15. This is one one of the pieces of evidence scientists used to come up with the continental drift theory.
  9. 16. Landform created when lava comes out of the ground.
  10. 17. This is the last name of the person who presented the plate tectonics theory in 1912.