Across
- 2. When two tectonic plates slide past each other, the place where they meet is a transform or lateral fault. The San Andreas Fault is one of the best examples of lateral plate motion.
- 4. tending to be different or develop in different directions.
- 7. a crack, split, or break in something.
- 8. a line that marks the limits of an area; a dividing line.
- 9. the outermost shell of a terrestrial planet.
Down
- 1. coming closer together, especially in characteristics or ideas.
- 3. massive slab of solid rock made up of Earth's lithosphere (crust and upper mantle
- 5. composed of the oceanic lithosphere and the thicker continental lithosphere
- 6. hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling.