Plate Motion Vocabulary Review

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Across
  1. 4. Earth's outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water
  2. 5. the place where two plates meet
  3. 9. Moving toward the same place
  4. 11. an extinct reptile that lived about 300 million years ago
  5. 13. 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. 15. a sudden shaking of Earth's surface
Down
  1. 1. one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up Earth's outer layer
  2. 2. moving apart in different directions
  3. 3. the layer of soft, solid rock underneath Earth's plates
  4. 6. a feature that flows on the surface of the planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune
  5. 7. evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints
  6. 8. a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
  7. 10. a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together
  8. 12. an underwater mountain range formed when two plates move apart
  9. 14. Earth's continuous areas of land (EX: Asia, Europe...)