Techtonic plates

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Across
  1. 5. The soft, hot layer beneath the lithosphere that helps plates move.
  2. 7. The outermost layer of the Earth, which is hard and rigid.
  3. 9. A boundary where two tectonic plates move towards each other.
  4. 12. Hot, melted rock found beneath the Earth's surface.
  5. 14. A boundary where two tectonic plates slide past each other.
  6. 15. A deep, narrow hole in the ocean floor caused by subduction of tectonic plates.
Down
  1. 1. A mountain that forms when magma from inside the Earth erupts through the surface.
  2. 2. A sudden shaking of the ground caused by the movement of tectonic plates.
  3. 3. The movement of heat in the asthenosphere that makes the plates move.
  4. 4. Large pieces of the Earth's surface that move and cause changes like earthquakes.
  5. 6. The process where one tectonic plate slides under another.
  6. 8. Heat that comes from within the Earth, often found near tectonic plate boundaries.
  7. 10. A crack in the Earth's surface where tectonic plates meet.
  8. 11. A boundary where two tectonic plates move apart from each other.
  9. 13. The outermost layer of the Earth, part of the lithosphere.