Plate Motion Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Where two or more plates collide, one plate eventually slides beneath the other.
  2. 6. Earth’s most outer layer of hard solid rock underneath the soil, vegetation, and water.
  3. 7. A long narrow groove that is formed by water, lava, or other liquid flows
  4. 9. Is obtained by drilling underground and showing scientists what the Earth looks like beneath the surface.
  5. 11. The crust of the earth that we can see and stand on
  6. 13. large-scale motion of the plates making up the Earth's lithosphere
  7. 14. When two tectonic plates move away from each other. This movement separated the Mesosaurus fossils.
  8. 15. an Earth science concerned with the solid Earth, the rocks of which it is composed, and the processes by which they change over time.
  9. 16. A feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune
  10. 17. used to track the motion of the Earth’s plates.It requires 3 satellites in space and receivers on Earth.
  11. 18. a planetary body bounded below by a core and above by a crust.
  12. 19. a diagram that shows the inside of a core sample.
Down
  1. 1. the edges where two plates meet
  2. 3. A sudden and violent shaking of the earth's surface
  3. 4. A preserved specimen of a living thing like a plant or animal found in the ground, and gives a view of the past.
  4. 5. also known as astrogeology or exogeology, is a planetary science discipline concerned with the geology of the celestial bodies such as the planets and their moons, asteroids, comets, and meteorites.
  5. 8. Study fossils and learn about the history of the Earth
  6. 10. an event or series of events that causes changes in the geosphere, such as flowing water or flowing lava.
  7. 12. How often or fast something happens.