Plate Tectonics puzzle
Across
- 3. Hot liquid rock beneath the surface of earth
- 4. moving apart in different directions
- 8. Moving toward the same place
- 11. The section of the earth that is closest to the center
- 12. A diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
- 15. True or nope: the plate material that makes up the ocean floor is older than the surface
- 16. Molten rock that comes from underground
- 17. something we observe to be similar over and over again
- 18. An extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago
- 20. one of the large sections of hard, solid rock
Down
- 1. A sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano
- 2. The layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth’s plates
- 5. any of earth’s main continuous areas of land such as Africa, Asia, or South America
- 6. a hard indentation or mold of an item such as a footprint or a bone
- 7. The outermost layer of the earth
- 9. The slow pulling apart of land that is caused by plate movement
- 10. a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor
- 13. how often or fast something happens
- 14. a sudden shaking of Earth’s surface
- 19. to examine in detail for a purpose