Plate Motion Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. The place where two plates meet.
  2. 5. Moving toward the same place.
  3. 7. When gas, lava, and ash are pushed out on the surface of Earth.
  4. 9. Moving apart in different directions.
  5. 12. Diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like.
  6. 14. To examine in detail for a purpose.
  7. 15. When the outer layer of Earth moves.
Down
  1. 1. The layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates.
  2. 2. An underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart.
  3. 4. A long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together.
  4. 6. Something we observe to be similar over and over again.
  5. 8. Earth's outermost layer of hard, solid rock.
  6. 10. One of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth's outer layer.
  7. 11. Made from living organisms as evidence from the past.
  8. 13. How often or fast something happens.