Rocks with Schrock

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Across
  1. 2. States the oldest layers of rock are at the bottom and youngest are at the top
  2. 3. When plates move away from each other
  3. 4. the flow of air from the core of the Earth
  4. 5. A chain of mountains underwater caused by divergent plate movement
  5. 8. Faults caused by tectonic plates breaking apart
  6. 9. The largest layer of the Earth
  7. 11. When plates move away from each other
  8. 14. A semi-rigid part of the mantle that flows like syrup
  9. 16. Layer made of liquid iron and nickel
  10. 17. A fracture in the Earth's crust caused by movement or displacement
  11. 18. Oceanic crust forms as magma rises and cools
  12. 19. The process of plates merging and breaking apart over millions of years
  13. 20. Theory that the lithosphere is broken into several large plates
Down
  1. 1. A gap in the rock where older layers meet younger layers
  2. 6. Layer made of solid iron and nickel
  3. 7. When plates slide across each other
  4. 10. An area of volcanic activity that develops above where magma rises in a plume from the mantle
  5. 12. The theory of continents moving over time
  6. 13. Forms from cementation of sediments
  7. 15. rock that forms from magma cooling