The Core: Plate Tectonic

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Across
  1. 4. outermost layer of the Earth
  2. 5. core: liquid layer of the Earth's core
  3. 7. soft layer of the mantle
  4. 8. outermost, rigid layer of the Earth
  5. 10. spreading: new lithosphere is created here
  6. 14. the bending of rock layers
  7. 15. boundary: boundary between two colliding plates
  8. 16. bits of rock or solified lava dropped from the air
  9. 17. boundary: boundary between two plates that are sliding past each other
  10. 19. layer between the crust and the core
Down
  1. 1. zone: a region where a an oceanic plate sinks down into the athenosphere
  2. 2. core: solid, dense center of the Earth
  3. 3. drift :theory that continents drift apart
  4. 4. a squeezing force
  5. 6. vibrations caused by breaking rocks along faults
  6. 9. remains or traces of a once living organism reserved by rock
  7. 11. a break in the Earth's crust
  8. 12. boundary: boundary between two plates moving away from each other
  9. 13. plate: piece of the lithosphere that moves on the asthenosphere
  10. 17. a pulling force
  11. 18. super continent