10. I'm a plate with oceanic crust sinking under a plate with continental crust. 11. I'm the layer of liquid metals that surrounds the inner core. 12. I'm the motion created when heated matcrial continually rises, cools, and sin 13. I'm the thin layer of rock that surrounds Earth. 14. I'm the gap that forms as tectonic plates move apart. 15. I occur where plates with continental crust push together. 16. I'm a ball of hot, solid metals at Earth's center. 17. I'm the transfer of hcat within a material, 18. I'm the large and small slabs of rock that make up pieces of the lithosphere. Fanhy crust and the very top of the manile combined.

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