Tectonic Plates Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. a break in the Earth's crust
  2. 6. a squeezing force
  3. 7. new lithosphere is created here
  4. 8. outermost, rigid layer of the Earth
  5. 9. outermost layer of the Earth
  6. 13. boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other
  7. 14. liquid layer of the Earth's core
  8. 16. layer between the crust and the core
Down
  1. 1. a region where a an oceanic plate sinks down into the athenosphere
  2. 2. the bending of rock layers
  3. 4. solid, dense center of the Earth
  4. 5. soft layer of the mantle
  5. 6. boundary between two colliding plates
  6. 10. piece of the lithosphere that moves on the asthenosphere
  7. 11. boundary between two plates moving away from each other
  8. 12. theory that continents drift apart
  9. 15. a pulling force