8th Grade Academic Competition

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Across
  1. 2. When plates move away from each other
  2. 5. Current in Earth’s mantle that transfer heat in Earth’s interior and is the driving force for the plate tectonics
  3. 7. Efficient production of large numbers of identical goods
  4. 9. Continents have moved slowly to their current locations
  5. 11. An action word
  6. 17. Giving nonhuman or nonliving things human or lifelike qualities
  7. 19. A large section of Earth’s oceanic or continental crust and rigid upper mantle that moves around on the asthenosphere
  8. 21. Period of rapid growth in using machines for manufacturing and production
  9. 25. Theory that the Earth’s crust and upper mantle are broken into plates that float and move around on a plastic-like layer of the mantle
  10. 26. Comparing two unlike things using like, as, than or resembles
  11. 27. Describes when, where, how or how much
  12. 28. People, places, things or events that have meaning in themselves, but also stand for something beyond themselves
  13. 29. Compares two unlike things directly
Down
  1. 1. Groups that tried to improve pay and working conditions
  2. 3. The way an author uses language
  3. 4. When one plate goes underneath another
  4. 6. Strategy of hiring families and dividing factory work into simple tasks
  5. 8. When plates collide with each other
  6. 10. All land
  7. 12. False thinking
  8. 13. Workers refuse to work until employers meet their demands
  9. 14. Parts of a machine that are identical
  10. 15. Punctuation that hooks together two independent clauses
  11. 16. Theory that new seafloor is formed when magma is forced upward toward the surface at the mid-ocean ridge
  12. 18. Believing all members of a group share a certain characteristic
  13. 20. Cloth items
  14. 22. The tools used to produce items or to do work
  15. 23. When plates slide past each other
  16. 24. Based on water powered mills that employed young unmarried girls from local farms