Plate Motion Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. Studies the Earth
  2. 7. The solid parts of the earth
  3. 9. People who study fossils and learn about the history of the Earth.
  4. 12. a sudden and violent shaking of the ground as a result of movements within the Earth's crust.
  5. 14. Boundary: There are three types of tectonic boundaries convergent, divergent and tranform
  6. 15. Global Positioning System is used to track the motion of Earth’s plates.
Down
  1. 1. Boundary: When two tectonic plates move away from each other.
  2. 2. A preserved specimen of a living thing, plant or animal, found in the ground a view of the past.
  3. 3. boundary: Where two or more plates collide, one plate eventually slides beneath the other.
  4. 5. sample: Something obtained by drilling underground and showing scientists how the earth looks beneath the surface.
  5. 6. section: a diagram that shows the inside of a core sample
  6. 8. How often or fast something happens
  7. 10. Layer: The layer of the earth that contains solid rock below the surface of the earth.
  8. 11. the layer of silicate rock between the crust and the outer core.
  9. 13. Plate: pieces of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle cause continental