Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 3. A break in the Earth’s crust due to movement
  2. 5. A crack in the surface of the Earth
  3. 10. The hypothesis that states the continents broke up and drifted
  4. 11. Magma that flows onto the Earth's surface
  5. 14. A solid outer layer on Earths consisting if crust and mantle
  6. 16. The amount of force per unit area that acts on a rock
  7. 18. The process where new oceanic seafloor forms as magma rises
  8. 19. The process that affects the Earth and changes appearance
  9. 20. A spot in Earth’s mantle where hot magma rises to the surface
  10. 22. The bending, tilting, and break up of Earth’s crust
  11. 23. Type of boundary between two plates moving away from each other
  12. 24. A form of ductile strain where rock layers bend
Down
  1. 1. Liquid rock under the Earth’s surface
  2. 2. Ground vibrations caused by Earth’s crust moving
  3. 4. Below the lithosphere
  4. 6. Super continent containing all the Earth’s landmass
  5. 7. two plates that slide together
  6. 8. Type of boundary between two plates sliding past each other
  7. 9. large pieces of lithosphere that separate the Earth's crust.
  8. 12. Below the lithosphere
  9. 13. occur along divergent plate boundaries, where new ocean floor is created as the Earth's tectonic plates spread apart.
  10. 15. Any change in a rock’s shape or volume caused by stress
  11. 17. Break away caused by plate tectonics
  12. 21. A vent or fissure in the Earth’s surface where magma and gasses are expelled