Plate Motion Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. moving toward the same place
  2. 10. A sudden shaking of the Earth’s surface.
  3. 12. the slow pulling apart of land that is caused by plate movement
  4. 13. an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart
  5. 15. the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth’s plates
  6. 16. the sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano
  7. 17. a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together
  8. 18. to examine in detail for a purpose
Down
  1. 1. any of the many processes (such as eruptions and lava flows) in which gas, lava,
  2. 2. an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago
  3. 4. The place where two plates meet.
  4. 5. moving apart in different directions
  5. 6. how often or fast something happens
  6. 7. Something we observe to be similar over and over again.
  7. 8. a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground
  8. 9. a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
  9. 11. ash are pushed out on the surface of Earth
  10. 14. any of Earth’s main continuous areas of land, such as Africa, Asia, and North America