plate tectonics

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Across
  1. 1. volcano is currently active
  2. 5. types of rock that are formed by the accumulation or deposition of mineral
  3. 6. rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle
  4. 7. volcanoes that have not erupted in a long time but are expected to erupt again
  5. 8. solid material found in the centre of some planets
  6. 11. A theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust
  7. 13. formed from the solidification of molten rock material
  8. 15. he mostly-solid bulk of Earth's interior
  9. 16. sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust
  10. 17. upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere
  11. 18. the third layer of the Earth
Down
  1. 2. volcanoes that wont erupt again
  2. 3. two plates slide past one another
  3. 4. current in a fluid that results from convection
  4. 7. two tectonic plates move away from each other
  5. 9. intensely hot area in the mantle below Earth's crust
  6. 10. plate ________ theory
  7. 12. mountain that has a crater or vent through which lava comes out
  8. 14. large slabs of Earth's lithosphere—split apart from each other
  9. 15. started out as some other type of rock, but have been substantially changed from their original igneous