Plate Motions: Listening to Earth
Across
- 3. a measure of how often or fast something happens
- 5. formed by one plate sinking under another
- 9. any of the many processes in which gas, lava, and ash is pushed out on the surface of Earth
- 13. the place where two plates meet
- 14. powerful microphones that are built to travel deep underwater
- 15. the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates
- 16. moving apart in different directions
- 17. a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
- 18. something we observe to be similar over and over again
- 20. moving toward the same place
Down
- 1. places where two plates are moving away from each other
- 2. small earthquakes that occur before big earthquakes
- 4. one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth's outer layer
- 6. the sudden pushing out of things, such as lava from a volcano
- 7. a scientist who studies sound in the ocean
- 8. a sudden shaking of the Earth's surface
- 10. Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water
- 11. an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart
- 12. an underwater canyon that is part of the Mariana trench
- 19. a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together
- 21. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration