Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. plate boundary where two plates move past eachother in opposite direction
  2. 6. landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago
  3. 7. vibrations caused by breaking rocks along faults
  4. 8. there were tropical plants found here
  5. 9. a break or crack in Earth's lithosphere
  6. 10. deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks towards the mantle
  7. 11. where transform boundaries mostly occur
  8. 14. plate boundary where two plates come together
  9. 17. the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath ocean trench
  10. 18. a valley that forms where plates spread apart
  11. 19. liquid core that surrounds Earth's inner core
  12. 20. hottest layer of the Earth
Down
  1. 1. the process which magma adds to the seafloor
  2. 2. Alfred Wegner's theory
  3. 3. plate boundary where two plates move away from eachother
  4. 5. hottest layer inside Earth that is mostly made of iron
  5. 6. tectonics theory that pieces of Earth are on constant motion
  6. 12. traces of ancient orgasms that have been preserved
  7. 13. opening in Earth's surface that often forms mountains
  8. 15. the amount of layers in the Earth
  9. 16. the thinnest layer of the Earth