Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. Solid iorn rich zone in the Earth
  2. 5. A scientific theory that explains how
  3. 6. landforms were created
  4. 7. Plates pushing together
  5. 9. Heat curents in the magma causes a
  6. 11. Plates sliping side by side
  7. 14. Solid rockey layer in the Earth
  8. 16. What rises from the hot spots in the
  9. 18. The solid outer part of the Earth
  10. 20. of the Earth's crust
  11. 21. A large scale processes affecting the
  12. 22. to push through
  13. 23. The lighter outer skin of the Earth
  14. 24. The molten metallic layer of the
  15. 27. The hypothesis that the Earth's
Down
  1. 1. plate and slides beneath
  2. 2. When an oceanic plate runs into a
  3. 4. A ring of volcanos
  4. 8. have moved
  5. 10. When all of Earth's landmasses
  6. 12. The relatively thin partof the Earth's
  7. 13. A device that can monitor the Earth's
  8. 15. of the crust, while lava is
  9. 17. The upper layer of the Earth's mantle
  10. 19. Plates pulling apart
  11. 25. which underlies the ocean basins
  12. 26. A natural feature of the Earth's
  13. 27. together to form one