TECTONICS
Across
- 5. the mostly-solid bulk of Earth's interior.
- 6. the region of transition from the land to the deep seafloor
- 7. a geological process that takes place at convergent boundaries.
- 9. two tectonic plates move away from each other
- 11. "the movement of ______ plates."
- 13. the outermost layer that is found under the oceans.
- 15. semi-fluid material below earth's crust that comes out as lava.
- 17. a rupture in the crust that allows hot lava to escape to the surface.
- 18. rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
- 19. semi-fluid material below or within the earth's crust
Down
- 1. a massive, irregularly shaped slab of solid rock.
- 2. a system of ideas intended to explain something
- 3. an astronomical body orbiting a star.
- 4. the substance of the land surface; soil.
- 7. the movement of the plates that make up Earth's crust.
- 8. a type of fault in which two tectonic plates slide past one another.
- 10. the outermost layer of Earth's lithosphere that makes up the planet's land.
- 12. two plates are moving towards each other
- 14. when rock underground suddenly breaks along a fault.
- 16. significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement.