Across
- 4. Vibrations in the Earth's crust and mantle
- 8. A weak area in Earth's crust can form islands
- 10. The rise of warmer material and the fall of cooler material
- 12. The theory for which all contemporary understanding of tectonic plates is based
- 15. To bend
- 16. Magnetic sphere surrounding the Earth
- 17. Zone of charged particles
- 19. The thickest layer of the earth under the crust
- 20. When continental tectonic plates collide
- 21. The outer most and thinnest layer of the Earth
Down
- 1. When two tectonic plates move past each other horizontally
- 2. The process of sorting different materials based upon density.
- 3. When tectonic plates push each other apart
- 4. When continental crust and oceanic crust collide and the denser plate subducts
- 5. Formed from volcanic activity
- 6. 1000 meters
- 7. Ions from the sun
- 9. Rock formed by heat and pressure
- 11. Rocks formed from sediment
- 13. The inner most layer of the Earth
- 14. Study of the Earth's crust
- 18. A device that measures seismic activity
