Plate Motion

2. An extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago
3. The sudden pushing out of something
5. Something we observe to be similar over and over again
7. The outside or top layer of something
8. To examine in detail for a purpose
10. Any of the many processes such as eruptions and lava flows in which gas, lava, and ash are pushed out on the surface of Earth
12. Hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth
14. An underwater mountain range formed when two plates moves apart
17. An object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see
18. Moving apart in different directions
19. A natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground
21. how often or fast something happens
24. A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like

1. The place where two plates meet
4. Earth's outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water
6. The layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earths plates
9. evidence of life from the past. such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints
11. Any of Earth's main continuous area of land
12. A feature that forms on the surface of a planet
13. one of the very large section of hard, solid rock that make up Earth's outer layer
15. Moving toward the same place
16. A long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together
17. Hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth
20. A sudden shaking of Earth's surface
22. The slow pulling apart of land that is caused by plate movement
23. A set of interacting parts forming a complex whole