Plate Motion Ch. 1-2 Vocabulary
Across
- 2. a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
- 4. Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water
- 7. one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s crust
- 8. the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth’s plates
- 10. a sudden shaking of Earth’s surface
- 11. moving toward the same place
- 12. 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
Down
- 1. an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart
- 3. a set of interacting parts forming a complex whole
- 5. something we observe to be similar over and over again
- 6. moving apart in different directions
- 7. the place where two plates meet
- 9. a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together