Earth Layers and Tectonic Plates

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Across
  1. 3. Earth’s outer layer is broken into large, slowly moving pieces.
  2. 4. name of the continents that were joined into a single large landmass
  3. 6. The strong, lower part of the mantle.
  4. 8. layer located between the core and the crust.
  5. 10. happens at the bottom of an ocean as tectonic plates move apart
  6. 12. form where two plates collide.
  7. 13. The outermost, rigid layer of Earth and is made up of crust and upper mantle.
  8. 14. differences in density caused by variations
Down
  1. 1. A boundary at which two plates move past each other horizontally
  2. 2. two plates move away from each other.
  3. 5. a layer of weak or soft mantle that is made of rock that flows slowly.
  4. 7. Each piece of the lithosphere
  5. 9. Layer of the Earth that extends from below the mantle to the center of Earth
  6. 11. The outermost solid layer of Earth