Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 4. Releasing gas that has been dissolved.
  2. 7. It is the middle layer of the earth and it is made out of hot rocks.
  3. 8. When the plates move apart from each other.
  4. 9. When the plates move very close together.
  5. 10. A person that studies the earth.
  6. 11. These make up the earth’s
  7. 13. It is in between the lithosphere and the upper mantle.
Down
  1. 1. There are seven land masses on earth.
  2. 2. Partly melted rock under the surface
  3. 3. This is a solid nickel layer of the earth.
  4. 5. It is the movement of the earth. Also the name of the of this puzzle.
  5. 6. It is a solid part of the earth. It is also called the geosphere.
  6. 12. The person who confirmed Alfred Wigener’s theory.