Across
- 3. plate A tectonic boundary where two plates are moving away from each other and new crust is forming from magma that rises to the Earth's surface between the two plates
- 6. act of changing physical location or position or of having this changed.
- 8. an intense suppressed emotion or situation liable to burst out suddenly.
- 9. plate boundaries are locations where phosphoric plates are moving towards one another.
- 10. an earthquake or other violent or major movement of the earth's crust.
- 11. an unattractive or unsatisfactory feature, especially in a piece of work or in a person's character.
Down
- 1. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
- 2. lithosphere comprises a number of plates"
- 4. plate are places where plates slide sideways past each other. At transform boundaries lithosphere is neither created nor destroyed.
- 5. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
- 7. tectonics a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithosphere plates which move slowly over the underlying mantle.