Restless Earth Vocab Lukas

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Across
  1. 1. A point along a fault where an earthquake starts
  2. 3. Layer of rock between crust and core
  3. 5. The edge between two or more plates can be divergent, convergent, or transform;3 wds
  4. 8. Soft layer of the mantle where tectonic plates move
  5. 10. The theory that explains how pieces of the lithosphere move;2 wds
  6. 13. The result of one tectonic plate moving below another
  7. 15. A boundary of two plates sliding past each other horizontally;2 wds
  8. 17. A wave of energy that travels through Earth and away from earthquakes;2 wds
  9. 18. A block of the lithosphere;2 wds
  10. 19. The solid outermost layer of the Earth above the mantle
  11. 20. Central part of Earth below mantle
  12. 22. When new oceanic lithosphere forms from magma rising to the surface;2 wds
Down
  1. 2. The theory that larger landmasses are smaller ones that drifted into their current positions;2 wds
  2. 4. Any movement of matter that results from a difference in density;2 wds
  3. 6. A boundary of tectonic plates moving away for each other;2 wds
  4. 7. When Earth's poles magnetic force switch periodically;2 wds
  5. 9. Strong lower part of mantle, also a name of an atmosphere level
  6. 11. The boundary of tectonic plates that are colliding;2 wds
  7. 12. Solid outer layer that consist of the crust and upper mantle
  8. 14. A movement of the ground due to the sudden release of energy when rocks along a fault move
  9. 16. A break in a body of rock
  10. 21. The point on Earth's crust directly above the focus