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    Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle

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    1) The document is a crossword puzzle about plate tectonics that contains 20 clues across and down. 2) The clues relate to the major components of the Earth's structure like the crust, mantle, outer core and inner core. They also cover plate tectonic concepts such as convection currents, plate boundaries, and seafloor spreading. 3) The crossword puzzle is intended to test knowledge of the key terms and ideas in plate tectonics theory.

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    1) The document is a crossword puzzle about plate tectonics that contains 20 clues across and down. 2) The clues relate to the major components of the Earth's structure like the crust, mantle, outer core and inner core. They also cover plate tectonic concepts such as convection currents, plate boundaries, and seafloor spreading. 3) The crossword puzzle is intended to test knowledge of the key terms and ideas in plate tectonics theory.

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    1) The document is a crossword puzzle about plate tectonics that contains 20 clues across and down. 2) The clues relate to the major components of the Earth's structure like the crust, mantle, outer core and inner core. They also cover plate tectonic concepts such as convection currents, plate boundaries, and seafloor spreading. 3) The crossword puzzle is intended to test knowledge of the key terms and ideas in plate tectonics theory.

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    Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle

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    1) The document is a crossword puzzle about plate tectonics that contains 20 clues across and down. 2) The clues relate to the major components of the Earth's structure like the crust, mantle, outer core and inner core. They also cover plate tectonic concepts such as convection currents, plate boundaries, and seafloor spreading. 3) The crossword puzzle is intended to test knowledge of the key terms and ideas in plate tectonics theory.

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    2. What is the outermost rigid layer of Earth? 1. What describes large scale movements of the Earth's lithosphere?
    6. What is dense and is in the center of Earth and extends from the bottom of 3. When two plates move away from each other this is called...
    the outer core to the center of Earth? 4. What explains the age and magnetic patterns of sea floor rocks?
    8. What is located between the core and the crust? 5. What is the slow creeping motion of Earth's solid silicate mantle caused by
    10. The lithosphere is divided into... convection currents carrying heat from the interior of the Earth to the
    11. What extends from below the mantle to the center of Earth? surface?
    12. What is the outermost layer of Earth? 7. A boundary at which two plates move past each other horizontally is called
    13. What is the movement of matter that results from differences in density? a...
    15. What is the liquid layer of Earth's core? 9. What is a layer of weak or soft mantle that is made of rock?
    17. What element makes up most of Earth's core? 14. What are the huge trenches on Earth's seafloor?
    18. Two plates collide they make... 16. What is the portion of motion of a tectonic plate that can be accounted
    19. What is the strong lower part of the Earth's mantle? for b the portion of motion of a tectonic plate that can be accounted for by its
    20. What pushes the rest of a plate away from the mid-ocean ridge? subduction?

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