Plate tectonics project

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Across
  1. 2. Where earthquakes are created.
  2. 3. The large rocky plates underneath the surface of earth.
  3. 6. Where two plates slip by each other.
  4. 9. evidence in the changing climates in the past.
  5. 10. What is the cause of so many earthquakes in California.
  6. 12. The tectonic plates, earths crust and uppermost mantle are referred to this.
  7. 15. The place where two plates move apart.
  8. 17. The man who came up with the continental drift theory.
  9. 19. What is surrounding the inner core.
  10. 21. The theory that all the continents were once joined together in a single landmass and then drifted apart.
Down
  1. 1. The name of the super continent before it drifted apart.
  2. 4. The Earths thin outer layer.
  3. 5. What is the big fault line in California.
  4. 7. The place where two plates come together.
  5. 8. Where one plate gets pushed under another. Also where volcanoes form.
  6. 11. What causes sea floor spreading.
  7. 13. The thickest part of Earth and surrounds the mantle.
  8. 14. a fracture between two blocks of rocks.
  9. 16. Evidence in the layers of rocks across continents.
  10. 18. Where there is a sudden slip on a fault causes what.
  11. 20. what is the thinnest layer of the earth.