Earth's Interior

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Across
  1. 2. A large piece of Earth's lithosphere.
  2. 3. (TWO WORDS-NO SPACES)The edges of plates of the lithosphere where two plates meet.
  3. 5. The fractured, rigid layer of rock formed form the Earth's crust and uppermost part of the mantle.
  4. 6. An opening in Earth's crust from which melted rock erupts.
  5. 7. A feature on the Earth's surface.
  6. 8. Shaking of the ground due to the grinding of rocks along plate boundaries.
  7. 9. The center of something such as the sun or the Earth.
  8. 10. A deep canyon formed along a plate boundary.
  9. 12. A fracture in the Earth's crust along with rocks slide past each other.
Down
  1. 1. The dense hot layer of rock beneath Earth's crust.
  2. 2. (TWO WORDS-NO SPACES)The theory that Earth's lithosphere consists of plates that slowly move as result of currents in the mantle.
  3. 4. The soft, less-rigid region of the mantle on which the plates of the lithosphere float and move around.
  4. 11. Earth's outermost and thinnest layer.