Plate Motion

1. The top part of the Earth that is thin and solid.
5. The place where two plates meet.
10. A long, deep indentation.
12. What is created by divergent plates moving apart.
13. Moving toward the same place.
14. The semi-fluid part of Earth’s layers, located right underneath the lithosphere.
15. One of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer.
16. How often or fast something happens.
17. One of the continents that the Mesosaurus fossils were found on.

1. The force that moves Earth’s plates.
2. What Earth’s outer layer is made out of under the ocean and land.
3. The layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth’s plates.
4. To examine in detail for a purpose.
5. Something we observe to be similar over and over again.
6. The sudden shaking of Earth’s surface.
7. The very center of the Earth, made of iron
8. Moving apart in different directions
9. The very outer layer of the Earth.
11. What scientist Alfred Wegener named the supercontinent that was here long ago.
12. The dinosaur fossil that was found on both South America and Africa because of plate tectonics.