Across
- 3. likely location of earthquakes
- 4. areas of especially hot magma rising up to lithosphere
- 5. plates move away from each other
- 6. thin brittle layer of rock floating on mantle
- 8. plates move toward each other
- 9. one plate subducts under the other
- 11. pattern of volcanoes and earthquackes all around pacific plate
- 12. dense oceanic plate subducts beneath continental plate and melts
- 14. soil pH nutrient content
- 15. very outer layer of lithosphere, earths surface
- 16. Dense mass of nickel, iron, radioactive elements
Down
- 1. one plate subducts underneath the other, forcing surface crust upward
- 2. Soft solid of magma surrounding core
- 7. topsoil, layer of decomposed organic matter and minerals from parent material
- 10. solid flexible outer layer of mantle
- 13. plates slide past each other