Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 2. drift theory that continents drift apart
  2. 4. a pulling force
  3. 5. outermost layer of the Earth
  4. 6. a region where a an oceanic plate sinks down into the athenosphere
  5. 9. boundary between two colliding plates
  6. 11. core solid, dense center of the Earth
  7. 14. boundary between two plates moving away from each other
  8. 15. a break in the Earth's crust
Down
  1. 1. layer between the crust and the core
  2. 3. soft layer of the mantle
  3. 6. new lithosphere is created here
  4. 7. plate piece of the lithosphere that moves on the asthenosphere
  5. 8. the bending of rock layers
  6. 9. a squeezing force
  7. 10. boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other
  8. 12. core liquid layer of the Earth's core
  9. 13. outermost, rigid layer of the Earth