Across
- 3. core liquid, iron-Nickle layer of the earth between the solid inner core and mantle.
- 4. when oceanic plates run into a continental plate and slide beneath it.
- 6. when two plates move towards each other.
- 9. core the inner core is the most metal place on earth.
- 10. Ocean Ridge along divergent plate boundaries, where new oceanic floor is created as the earths tectonic plates spread apart.
Down
- 1. Drift the movement of continents resulting from the motion of tectonic plates.
- 2. long, narrow depressions on the sea floor that form at the boundary of tectonic plates where one plate is pushed, or subducted beneath another.
- 5. when two plates move away from each other.
- 7. valley a lowland region that forms where earths tectonic plates move apart, or rift.
- 8. When two plates move past each other.