Tectonic Plates Crossword Puzzle by Chloe Stanley

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Across
  1. 2. An area of rock that has been bent by stress.
  2. 4. One of the large landmasses of the earth.
  3. 5. The process that occurs when plates converge and one plate forces the other down into Earth's mantle.
  4. 7. The process by which rocks change shape under stress.
  5. 9. The supercontinent that broke apart 225 million years ago.
  6. 11. A split between two bodies that were once joined.
  7. 12. Ground movements that occur when blocks of rock in Earth move suddenly and release energy.
  8. 15. Pertaining to the structure or movement of the earth's crust.
  9. 17. The outermost layer of earth.
  10. 18. The thick, dense layer of rock between Earth's crust and its core.
Down
  1. 1. The amount of force applied an object.
  2. 2. A crack that forms when large blocks of rock break.
  3. 3. Made up of the earth’s crust and mantle.
  4. 4. Type of boundary where two plates collide.
  5. 6. The center of earth.
  6. 8. Molten rock in the earth's crust.
  7. 10. Liquid magma that reaches the surface.
  8. 13. Type of boundary where two plates slide past each other.
  9. 14. A form of stress produced by a force that acts to stretch a material.
  10. 16. Large movable segments of the lithosphere.