Plate Tectonics Crossword
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
                                    
 
 
Down: 1) the sinking of regions crust to lower elevation3) the process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies4) the soft layer of the mantle on which the tectonic plates move6) the boundary between two tectonnic plates that are moving away from each other8) the hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single land mass, broke up, and driftedd to their present location11) occurs when an object is squeezed13) the rising of regions of earth's crust to higher elevation17) the central part of the earth below the mantle Across: 2) the thin and solid outermost layer of the earth above the mantel5) the boundary between tow plates that are sliding past each other7) the strong lower part of the mantle between the asthenosphere and the outer core9) the boundary formed by the collision of two lithospheric plates10) the theory that the Earth's lithosphere is divided into tectonic plates that move around on top of the asthenosphere12) the layer of rock between the Earth's crust and core14) pieces of the lithosphere that move around on top of the asthenosphere15) a break in a body of rock along which one body slides relative to another16) the bending of rock layers because of stress in the earth's crust18) the solid outer layer of the earth that consists of the crust and the rigid upper part of the mantel19) occurs when forces act to stretch an object
 

 

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