Plate Tectonics Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. the solid outer part of Earth that includes the crust and upper mantle.
  2. 6. process by which heat is transferred by movement of a heated fluid such as air or water.
  3. 8. a sudden violent shaking of the ground.
  4. 9. the outermost layer of Earth.
  5. 11. melted rock on Earth's surface.
Down
  1. 2. the action or process in plate teconics of the edge of one crustal plate descending below the edge of another.
  2. 3. cause to break through faulting caused by plate tectonics.
  3. 4. the branch of geology studying the folding and faulting of the earth's crust.
  4. 5. the border between two tectonic plates.
  5. 7. plate a rigid layer of the Earth's crust that is believed to drift slowly.
  6. 10. melted rock beneath Earth's surface.