Plate Tectonics Vocaulary

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Across
  1. 4. a large plume of hot mantle material rising from deep within the earth
  2. 6. the part of the earth's crust that makes up the seafloor
  3. 8. a large depression formed when a volcano erupts and collapses
  4. 10. a dip-slip fault in which the block above the fault has moved downward relative to the block below
  5. 11. layer of the earth between the solid inner core and lower mantle
  6. 14. two plates comes together
  7. 15. comes out of a volcano
  8. 16. a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock
  9. 17. a mixture of molten and semi-molten rock found beneath the surface of the earth
Down
  1. 1. two tectonic plates move away from each other
  2. 2. is slid and 90% iron
  3. 3. the mostly solid bulk of earth's interior
  4. 5. places where plates slide sideways past each other
  5. 7. anything thrown into the air during a volcanic eruption
  6. 8. built from particles and blobs of congealed lava ejected from a single vent
  7. 9. abroad runded volcano that is built up by successive outpourings of very fluid lava
  8. 12. sudden movement of the earth's lithosphere
  9. 13. the eruption of molten rock (magma) onto the surface of a planet