Earth's Tectonics Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- asthenosphere: greek meaning weak. part of earth’s upper mantle.
- continent: 7 largest areas of land of earth’s crust.
- convection: currents caused by heat exchange.
- divergent boundary: place where rifts are found.
- hot spot: places where most volcanoes are formed.
- lithosphere: earth’s rocky, outer layer and crust.
- mantle: layer between earth’s crust and core.
- ocean ridge: longest mountain range in the world made by seafloor spreading.
- plate: one of the large areas of earth’s lithosphere.
- subduction plate: a large land mass that is pushed above or below another.
- subduction zone: region where one plate is pushed below another plate.
- transform fault: a place where 2 plates move in opposite directions.
