The Earth and Plates

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Across
  1. 3. A type of plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
  2. 5. A fracture in Earth's crust where rock on either side has moved.
  3. 10. The liquid layer of the Earth's core.
  4. 12. The rigid outer layer of the Earth, including the crust and upper mantle.
  5. 14. A type of plate boundary where two plates slide past each other horizontally.
  6. 15. The study of the movement and interaction of Earth's plates.
  7. 16. The supercontinent that existed over 200 million years ago.
Down
  1. 1. The solid innermost layer of the Earth's core.
  2. 2. A crack or break in the Earth's crust, often at a divergent boundary.
  3. 4. A type of plate boundary where two plates move towards each other.
  4. 6. The semi-fluid layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move.
  5. 7. The process of new oceanic crust forming at mid-ocean ridges and spreading outwards.
  6. 8. The process by which heat is transferred through fluids like magma, driving plate movements.
  7. 9. The process by which one tectonic plate sinks beneath another.
  8. 11. The outermost layer of the Earth.
  9. 13. The thick, semi-solid layer between the crust and the core.