Tectonic Plates

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Across
  1. 3. most famous fault in California
  2. 6. solid plastic layer of the mantle beneath the lithosphere
  3. 7. formed when tectonic plates crash head on and push the land up
  4. 9. study of the alignment of magnetic minerals in rock
  5. 12. scientist who proposed continental drift
  6. 14. the deepest part of Earth in the Ocean
  7. 16. process in which sea floor forms as magma rises
  8. 17. process by which Earth's crust breaks apart
  9. 18. the boundary that means plates are pulling away from each other
  10. 19. outer layer of the Earth
Down
  1. 1. break up of the planets is called
  2. 2. the single large ocean that once covered Earth's surface
  3. 4. a long undersea mountain
  4. 5. large pieces of the lithosphere that move and crash into eachother
  5. 8. supercontinent
  6. 10. solid outer layer of earth that consists of crust and upper part of mantle
  7. 11. the boundary that means plates are crashing head on
  8. 13. inner part of the Earth
  9. 14. middle part of the Earth
  10. 15. the boundary that means plates are sliding past each other