Plate Motion Vocab

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Across
  1. 6. Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock
  2. 7. a sudden shaking of Earth’s surface
  3. 8. the outside or top layer of something
  4. 10. to examine in detail for a purpose
  5. 11. any of the many processes (such as eruptions and lava flows) in which gas, lava, and ash are pushed out on the surface of Earth
  6. 13. moving apart in different directions
  7. 14. something we observe to be similar over and over again
  8. 16. moving toward the same place
Down
  1. 1. an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart
  2. 2. a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
  3. 3. the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth’s plates
  4. 4. how often or fast something happens
  5. 5. the place where two plates meet
  6. 9. one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth’s outer layer
  7. 12. the slow pulling apart of land that is caused by plate movement
  8. 15. a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together