Plate Motion Vocab Words

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Across
  1. 4. Boundary: Where two or more plates collide, one plate eventually slides beneath the other.
  2. 5. Outer Layer: The outer layer that contains solid rock, we stand on the surface on the outer layer it is under the surface.
  3. 6. a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
  4. 8. Boundary: When two tectonic plates move away from each other
  5. 10. Plate: pieces of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle that cause continental drift.
  6. 11. A scientist who studies land and fossils
  7. 14. The land part of Earth
  8. 16. Boundary: There are three types of tectonic boundaries convergent, divergent and transform.
Down
  1. 1. A scientist who studies fossils and Earth
  2. 2. Layer: Earth’s outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water.
  3. 3. Is obtained by drilling underground and showing scientists how the Earth looks beneath the surface
  4. 7. A preserved specimen of a living thing
  5. 9. how often or fast something happens
  6. 12. a sudden shaking of Earth’s surface.
  7. 13. Global Positioning System is used to track the motion of Earth’s plates. It requires 3 satellites in space and receivers on Earth.
  8. 15. a layer of silicate rock between the crust and the outer core