Chapter 7 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. Supercontinent
  2. 5. Liquid metal surrounding the inner core
  3. 7. When two plates move away from each other
  4. 9. a sphere of hot solid metal
  5. 11. Scientific theory explaining how the plates move on Earth's surface
  6. 12. Thin plates that form the ocean floor
  7. 13. Eruasion Plate,North American PLate,South American Plate,Pacific Plate,African Plate,etc.
  8. 14. When two plates colide
  9. 15. A layer of solid rock that surrounds the Earth's surface
  10. 17. When two plates slide past each other
Down
  1. 1. Topmost layer of Earth made up of crust and the solid part of the upper mantle
  2. 2. caused by the very hot material in the deepest part of the mantle
  3. 4. Where the plates of the lithosphere float, slide a top, a thin, semi solid layer in the upper mantle
  4. 6. Juan De Fuco Plate,Philipine Plate,Caribbean Plate,etc.
  5. 8. Earth's surface is broken into large pieces that move over the asthenosphere
  6. 10. Thick plates that form the continents
  7. 16. The thick layer surrounding the core