Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle

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Mantle : _______________  Convection - What is the slow creeping motion of earth's solid silicate mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat from the interior of the earth to the surface?
Outer Core : What is the liquid layer of earth's core?
Slab Pull : What is the portion of motion of a tectonic plate that can be accounted for b the portion of motion of a tectonic plate that can be accounted for by its subduction?
Ridge Push : What pushes the rest of a plate away from the mid-ocean ridge?
Iron : What element makes up most of earth's core?
Core : What is the outermost layer of earth?
Core : What extends from below the mantle to the center of earth?
Lithosphere : What is the outermost rigid layer of earth?
Divergent  : ___________ Boundaries -  When two plates move away from each other this is called...
Sea-floor Spreading : What explains the age and magnetic patterns of sea floor rocks?
Tectonic Plates : The lithosphere is divided into...
Transform : __________________ Boundary  - A boundary at which two plates move past each other horizontally is called a...
Mesosphere : What is the strong lower part of the earth's mantle?
Convergent : ____________  Boundaries - Two plates collide they  make...
Inner Core : What is dense and is in the center of earth and extends from the bottom of the outer core to the center of earth?
Ocean  : _____________ Trenches - What are the huge trenches on earth's seafloor?
Convection : What is the movement of matter that results from differences in density?
Mantle : What is located between the core and the crust?
Plate Tectonics : What describes large scale movements  of the earth's lithosphere?

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mantle : _ convection - what is the slow creeping motion of earth's solid silicate mantle caused by convection currents carrying heat from the interior of the earth to the surface?
outer core : what is the liquid layer of earth's core?
slab pull : what is the portion of motion of a tectonic plate that can be accounted for b the portion of motion of a tectonic plate that can be accounted for by its subduction?
ridge push : what pushes the rest of a plate away from the mid-ocean ridge?
iron : what element makes up most of earth's core?
core : what is the outermost layer of earth?
core : what extends from below the mantle to the center of earth?
lithosphere : what is the outermost rigid layer of earth?
divergent : _ boundaries - when two plates move away from each other this is called...
sea-floor spreading : what explains the age and magnetic patterns of sea floor rocks?
tectonic plates : the lithosphere is divided into...
transform : _ boundary - a boundary at which two plates move past each other horizontally is called a...
mesosphere : what is the strong lower part of the earth's mantle?
convergent : _ boundaries - two plates collide they make...
inner core : what is dense and is in the center of earth and extends from the bottom of the outer core to the center of earth?
ocean : _ trenches - what are the huge trenches on earth's seafloor?
convection : what is the movement of matter that results from differences in density?
mantle : what is located between the core and the crust?
plate tectonics : what describes large scale movements of the earth's lithosphere?