PLATE TECTONIC CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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Across
  1. 1. is the outermost layer of our planet.
  2. 4. is a boundary that occurs when two tectonic plates are getting pushed apart.
  3. 6. is a type of fault in which two tectonic plates slide past one another.
  4. 8. is the very hot, very dense center of our planet.
  5. 9. is an opening in the Earth’s surface that allows gas, hot magma and ash to escape from beneath the Earth’s crust.
Down
  1. 1. is a boundary that occurs when two tectonic plates collide with each other.
  2. 2. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
  3. 3. is a sudden, violent shaking of the ground.
  4. 5. is a fracture or break in the Earth's crust.
  5. 7. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.