Across
- 10. The process when new oceanic lithosphere forms
- 12. the theory that explains how large pieces of the Earth's crust move and change shape
- 13. continents formed a single landmass
- 14. sknking of regions of the Earth's crust to lower elevations
- 17. tectonic plates move apart
- 18. soft plastic-like layer
- 19. Tectonic plates slide past each other
- 20. the nature of something's ingredients or constituents
Down
- 1. block of lithosphere
- 2. The thin, solid, rigid outermost layer of the Earth
- 3. Stress that occurs when the forces act to squeeze an object
- 4. It solid iron and nickel
- 5. The strong, lower part of the mantle
- 6. Makes up 66% of Earth
- 7. properties that involve a reaction to an applied load
- 8. Only liquid layer
- 9. center of the earth
- 11. a break in a body of rock
- 15. tectonic plates collide
- 16. Solid outer layer