Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 3. surface along which rocks break and move
  2. 4. plastic-like layer below the lithosphere
  3. 6. all landmasses were connected then broke apart.
  4. 7. surface along which rocks break and move
  5. 8. a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying mantle.
  6. 9. steep-walled depression around a volcano's vent
Down
  1. 1. hypothesis proposed by Alfred Wegener that the states that continents have moved slowly to their current locations on Earth
  2. 2. vibrations caused by breaking rocks along faults
  3. 5. rigid, outermost layer of Earth that is about 100km thick, and is composed of the crust and part of the upper mantle
  4. 9. the outermost layer of a planet.