Earth's Tectonics Plate Motion Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• analyze : to examine in detail for a purpose
• continent : any of earth's main continuous areas of land, such as africa, asia, and north america
• convergent : moving toward the same place
• cross section : a diagram that shows what the inside of something looks like
• divergent : moving apart in different directions
• earthquake : a sudden shaking of earth's surface
• eruption : the sudden pushing out of something, such as lava from a volcano
• fossil : evidence of life from the past, such as fossilized bones, footprints, or leaf prints
• geyser : a natural spring that sends hot water and steam suddenly into the air from a hole in the ground
• landform : a feature that forms on the surface of a planet, such as a mountain, channel, or sand dune
• lava : hot liquid rock on the surface of earth
• magma : hot liquid rock below the surface of earth
• mantle : the layer of soft, solid rock underneath earth's plates
• model : an object, diagram, or computer program that helps us understand something by making it simpler or easier to see
• outer layer : earth's outermost layer of hard, solid rock that is underneath the soil, vegetation, and water
• pattern : something we observe to be similar over and over again
• plate : one of the very large sections of hard, solid rock that make up earth's outer layer
• plate boundary : the place where two plates meet
• rate : how often or fast something happens
• rifting : the slow pulling apart of land tat is caused by plate movement
• surface : the outside or top layer of something
• trench : a long, deep indentation in the ocean floor formed when two plates move together
• volcanic activity : any of the many processes in which gas, lava, and ash are pushed out on the surface of earth