Tectonic Plates

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Across
  1. 5. The lithosphere is ___________ affects us the most
  2. 7. crust that makes up the land we live on
  3. 9. The last name of the man who came up with continental drift theory
  4. 13. These occur because of subduction once magma puts enough pressure on the weak crust above it
  5. 16. where two tectonic plates meet
  6. 17. Type of lithosphere plates
  7. 18. The layer of earth that includes both the upper mantle and crust
  8. 19. crust that is under the ocean
Down
  1. 1. These are found at divergent boundaries between continental/continental plates
  2. 2. The liquid layer of melted Iron and Nickel at the center of the earth
  3. 3. These are cracks in Earth's crust found at transform boundaries
  4. 4. The name of earth's supercontinent before it seperated
  5. 6. Earth's layer that is like putty and flows in convection currents
  6. 8. The solid layer of the earth at the very center
  7. 10. The largest layer of the earth that has 3 parts
  8. 11. This is when one tectonic plate slides under another
  9. 12. These are created at continental/continental convergent boundaries
  10. 14. The outermost layer of earth that includes both the land under the ocean and the continents
  11. 15. The athenosphere is _______ earth's plates move
  12. 17. A deep crevice in the earth created at a subduction zone