EXPLORING PLATE TECTONICS

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Across
  1. 2. scientist who studies earthquakes.
  2. 5. credited with the theory of Continental Drift
  3. 11. Slowly moving pieces of Earth’s crust.
  4. 13. layer between the crust and the core
  5. 15. caused by warm fluids rising and cooler fluids sinking.
  6. 16. a break in the Earth's crust along which two blocks of the crust slide relative to one another
  7. 17. the name given to the super continent
  8. 18. boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates slide past each other.
  9. 19. vibration from underground movement along a fault plane
  10. 20. the type of stress that occurs when forces act to stretch an object
Down
  1. 1. boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move towards each other.
  2. 3. zone region where an oceanic plate sinks down into the asthenosphere
  3. 4. the outermost, rigid layer of the Earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantle
  4. 6. soft layer of the mantle
  5. 7. Crust This is the layer we walk on.
  6. 8. two tectonic plates slowly crash into each other and form mountains
  7. 9. drift hypothesis that the continents slowly move across Earth's surface
  8. 10. any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock
  9. 12. the result of a force distributed over an area
  10. 14. A boundary of two tectonic plates where the plates move away from each other.