Plate Motion Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. - 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
  2. 8. - a sudden shaking of Earth’s surface
  3. 9. - Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water
  4. 10. - a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together
  5. 11. - the place where two plates meet
  6. 14. - moving toward the same place
Down
  1. 2. - a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
  2. 3. - one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer
  3. 4. - the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth’s plates
  4. 5. - an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart
  5. 6. - to examine in detail for a purpose
  6. 7. - how often or fast something happens
  7. 12. - moving apart in different directions
  8. 13. - something we observe to be similar over and over again