Geology Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. an underwater mountain range
  2. 4. a pushing up of large sections of crust
  3. 6. sudden shaking of the Earth
  4. 7. area where one plate is moving underneath another
  5. 9. Earth’s main continuous areas of land
  6. 10. evidence of life from the past
  7. 11. slow pulling apart of plates
  8. 14. earthquakes, eruptions or any kind of happenings around volcanoes
  9. 18. type of matter that makes up rock
  10. 19. large section of crust that moves
  11. 21. breaking down of rock into small pieces
  12. 23. a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
  13. 25. rock formed from heat & pressure
  14. 26. rock formed from sediment glued together
  15. 28. boundary where plates push together
Down
  1. 1. process that compress and glue sediment together
  2. 2. an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago
  3. 5. place where two plates meet
  4. 8. small pieces of rock
  5. 12. boundary where plates move apart
  6. 13. ability to make things move or change
  7. 15. feature on land such as mountains or dunes
  8. 16. long deep indentation on the ocean floor where two plates move together
  9. 17. melted rock material
  10. 20. movement of sediment
  11. 22. the hard rocky layer of our planet
  12. 24. rock formed from cooling lava
  13. 27. soft layer of molten rock under the crust