Tectonic Plates

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Across
  1. 6. 1% of the earth
  2. 8. Upper mantle and crust'
  3. 11. made of liquid iron and nickel
  4. 12. hardness, fatigue, elasticity, toughness
  5. 13. oceanic and continental crust
  6. 15. denser and weaker, below the lithospheric mantle
  7. 16. oceanic plate goes below because it is denser
  8. 17. idea by Harry Hess
  9. 18. also known as a constructive boundary
Down
  1. 1. to explain plate tectonics
  2. 2. pressing something together
  3. 3. between the thermosphere and stratosphere
  4. 4. thickest layer
  5. 5. crack in the earth
  6. 6. idea by Alfred Wegner
  7. 7. plates slide past each other
  8. 9. 7 major and 8 minor
  9. 10. also known as a destructive boundary
  10. 14. a hot dense ball made of mostly iron