Across
- 1. Comes from the Latin for building (Bill Nye video)
- 4. Largest of Earth's layers, made of goopy magma
- 6. These are created when two plates push together (the Himalayas)
- 8. Sea crust moves below continental crust because it has higher this...
- 12. When the ground shakes
- 14. Thinnest of Earth's layers, where life is located; also part of pizza
- 15. The term scientists use to describe the super continent when there was one landmass
- 16. When two plates come together
- 17. Sea floor spreading results in this
Down
- 1. The speed plates are moving per year
- 2. When two plates slide next to each other (cars on a highway)
- 3. When heat and pressure build up and an eruption occurs (Mt. Saint Helens)
- 5. When two plates pull apart from one another
- 7. Area along the Pacific Ocean that is home to many volcanoes and earthquakes
- 9. Layer just outside the inner most layer, contains molten metals
- 10. What we call magma that comes out of the ground
- 11. When a plate slides beneath another one
- 13. Center and hottest part of the Earth made of solid Iron