Earth's Interior Processes

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Across
  1. 2. it is the very hot, very dense center of the Earth's interior.
  2. 5. it is composed of magma that erupts on the seafloor to create basalt lava flows or cools deeper down.
  3. 7. it is the mostly sold bulk of Earth's interior.
  4. 11. this is when two plates slides past each other.
  5. 12. it refers to the process of rising hot mantle material and sinking colder material.
  6. 13. a German Scientist that published two articles about a concept called Continental Drift in 1912.
Down
  1. 1. this is when two plates meet together.
  2. 3. it is made up of many different types of igneous, metamorphic. and sedimentary rocks.
  3. 4. the outermost shell of a terrestrial planet.
  4. 6. it is the usual process at work at divergent plate boundaries, leading to the creation of a new ocean floor.
  5. 8. these are series of pieces, or tectonic plates, that move slowly over time.
  6. 9. this is when two plates separates from each other.
  7. 10. it is a scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created because of Earth's subterranean movements.