Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle, By: Jessie Cooper and Morgan Ferqueron

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Across
  1. 4. layer of the earth
  2. 5. plate boundaries/ where most volcanoes occur
  3. 7. Boundary/boundary where two plates move away from each other
  4. 8. crust/ earth's crust located under the ocean
  5. 9. outermost layer made of the crust and the top part of the mantle
  6. 10. fold in the rock layers due to stress
  7. 14. of mantle rock that flows slowly and allows tectonic plates to float on top of it\
  8. 15. boundary/boundary where two plates slide past each other
  9. 17. core/ liquid layer of earth's core
Down
  1. 1. spreading/the process in which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises towards the surface and solidifies.
  2. 2. force
  3. 3. core/solid dense center of the earth
  4. 4. force
  5. 5. word for plate tectonics
  6. 6. crust/surface above sea level that composes earth's continents
  7. 11. landmass of all of today's continents combined
  8. 12. tectonics/the theory that explains how large pieces of earth's outermost layer called tectonic plates move and change shape
  9. 13. Boundary/Where two plates push against each other
  10. 16. break in earth's crust