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Plate Tectonics

Directions: You must read the clues, and figure out what the words to the definitions are.
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Across
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The bending of rock layers
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A boundary where two plates collide
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The bending of rock layers
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A Theory that continents drift apart
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A chain of mountains on the ocean floor, New ocean floor forms at the mid ocean ridge where the seafloor is spreading
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The space around a magnet within which the force off the magnet is exerted
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To explain the age and magnetic patterns of sea-floor rocks
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Liquid layer of the earths core
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A boundary at which two plates move past each other horizontally
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A squeezing force
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Outermost layer of the earth
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A piece of the lithosphere that moves on the asthenosphere
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When continents were joined in a single large landmass
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The process by which magma rises to fill the gap between two plates that are moving apart
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Solid , dense center o the earth
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A region where an oceanic plate sinks down in the athenosphere
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A break in the Earth's crust
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The pathway along which energy travels through a fluid
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A boundary where two plates move away from each other
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Outermost, rigid layer of the earth
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Soft layer of the mantle
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Layer between the crust and the core
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A pulling force