Tectonic Plates

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Across
  1. 1. Comes from the Latin for building (Bill Nye video)
  2. 4. Largest of Earth's layers, made of goopy magma
  3. 6. These are created when two plates push together (the Himalayas)
  4. 8. Sea crust moves below continental crust because it has higher this...
  5. 12. When the ground shakes
  6. 14. Thinnest of Earth's layers, where life is located; also part of pizza
  7. 15. The term scientists use to describe the super continent when there was one landmass
  8. 16. When two plates come together
  9. 17. Sea floor spreading results in this
Down
  1. 1. The speed plates are moving per year
  2. 2. When two plates slide next to each other (cars on a highway)
  3. 3. When heat and pressure build up and an eruption occurs (Mt. Saint Helens)
  4. 5. When two plates pull apart from one another
  5. 7. Area along the Pacific Ocean that is home to many volcanoes and earthquakes
  6. 9. Layer just outside the inner most layer, contains molten metals
  7. 10. What we call magma that comes out of the ground
  8. 11. When a plate slides beneath another one
  9. 13. Center and hottest part of the Earth made of solid Iron