Plate tectonics Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction
  2. 6. The bending of rock layers
  3. 7. Boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other
  4. 8. A record produced by a seismograph
  5. 12. Boundary between two colliding plates
  6. 13. Solid, dense center of the Earth
  7. 16. The rigid outer part of the earth
  8. 17. Supercontinent that existed approximately 335 million years ago
  9. 18. Layer between the crust and the core
Down
  1. 1. Liquid layer of the Earth's core
  2. 2. New lithosphere is created here
  3. 3. A break in the Earth's crust
  4. 5. An instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes, such as force and duration
  5. 9. Pieces of Earth's crust and uppermost mantle, together referred to as the lithosphere
  6. 10. Boundary between two plates moving away from each other
  7. 11. The upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere
  8. 14. Outermost layer of the Earth
  9. 15. A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust