Plate motion crossword puzzle
Across
- 3. evidence of life from the past
- 7. the slow pulling apart of land the is caused by plate motion
- 9. hot liquid rock on Earth’s surface
- 13. a sudden shaking of Earth's crust
- 15. a long deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when 2 plates move together
- 16. when 2 plates are moving towards each other
- 18. the place where 2 plates meet
- 19. when 2 plates are moving towards each other
- 20. the layer of soft solid rock underneath Earth’s surface
Down
- 1. A scientific instrument used to record data from earthquakes
- 2. one of the large sections of hard, solid rock that makes up Earths outer layer
- 4. when 1 plate goes underneath another plate and is destroyed in the mantle
- 5. the outside or top layer of something
- 6. the sudden pushing out of something
- 8. this person invented the idea of plate tectonics Alfred ____________
- 10. an underwater mountain chain formed at divergent plate boundaries
- 11. Earths outermost layer of solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water
- 12. something we observe to be similar over and over again
- 14. how often of fast something happens
- 17. hot liquid rock below the surface of Earth