Plate Motion

2. The dinosaur fossil that was found on both South America and Africa because of plate tectonics.
7. Moving toward the same place.
10. One of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer.
12. The place where two plates meet.
14. Moving apart in different directions
15. What is created by divergent plates moving apart.
17. One of the continents that the Mesosaurus fossils were found on.
19. Something we observe to be similar over and over again.

1. The semi-fluid part of Earth’s layers, located right underneath the lithosphere.
3. The very outer layer of the Earth.
4. The very center of the Earth, made of hot solid iron.
5. The layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth’s plates.
6. The sudden shaking of Earth’s surface.
8. The force that moves Earth’s plates.
9. What Earth’s outer layer is made out of under the ocean and land.
10. What scientist Alfred Wegener named the supercontinent that was here long ago.
11. How often or fast something happens.
13. To examine in detail for a purpose.
16. A long, deep indentation.
18. The top part of the Earth that is thin and solid.