Plate Motion

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Across
  1. 5. evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints
  2. 8. hot liquid rock on the surface of Earth
  3. 9. an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart
  4. 11. a sudden shaking of Earth's surface
  5. 13. moving toward the same place
  6. 14. the outside or top layer of something
  7. 15. gas, lava, and ash are pushed to the surface
  8. 17. water
  9. 18. a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground
  10. 20. a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
  11. 21. any of Earth’s main continuous areas of land
Down
  1. 1. to examine in detail for a purpose
  2. 2. moving apart in different directions
  3. 3. the place where two plates meet
  4. 4. how often or fast something happens
  5. 6. Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation,
  6. 7. a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together
  7. 9. the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth’s plates
  8. 10. the slow pulling apart of land that is caused by plate movement
  9. 12. an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago
  10. 16. the sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano
  11. 19. one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer