tectonic plates crossword puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. make a thorough or dramatic change in the form, appearance, or character of.
  2. 4. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
  3. 7. a thick layer of hot, solid rock between the crust and the outer core
  4. 8. the thin, rocky outer layer of the planet
  5. 9. hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust from which lava and other igneous rock is formed on cooling.
  6. 11. 9 Crustal Deformation and Earthquakes – An Introduction to ...Shearing in tectonic plates is
  7. 12. coming closer together, especially in characteristics or ideas.
  8. 13. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
  9. 14. the process of squeezing or pressing something together, making it smaller or denser.
  10. 16. Earth's innermost layer
  11. 17. relating to the ocean.
  12. 18. a series of powerful, long-wavelength ocean waves caused by a large and sudden displacement of water, most commonly due to a submarine earthquake, but also possible from volcanic eruptions, landslides, or meteorites
Down
  1. 1. the stress that pulls the plates apart, causing them to stretch, thin, and create fractures or faults.
  2. 2. tending to be different or develop in different directions.
  3. 3. The theory that the Earth's crust and upper mantle (the lithosphere) is broken into a number of more or less rigid, but constantly moving
  4. 5. hot molten or semifluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure, or solid rock resulting from cooling of this.
  5. 6. the upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere, in which there is relatively low resistance to plastic flow and convection is thought to occur.
  6. 10. a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust
  7. 15. sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action.
  8. 16. the gradual movement of the continents across the earth's surface through geological time.