Plate Tectonics Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. The location underground where an earthquake begins
  2. 6. The transfer of heat energy by the movement of heated fluid
  3. 8. An area around the edge of the Pacific Ocean with lots of volcanoes and earthquakes
  4. 11. Deep underwater canyons
  5. 12. An example of a conservative plate margin
  6. 13. The supercontinent that Alfred Wegener believed to exist
  7. 15. The longest underwater chain of mountains in the world
  8. 16. An island that has formed as a result of a constructive margin
  9. 18. Waves of energy that travel through the Earth during an earthquake
  10. 19. Where two plates move apart, allowing magma to rise and create new crust
Down
  1. 1. The scale used to measure the strength or magnitude of an earthquake
  2. 2. A large, rigid section of the Earth’s crust
  3. 3. The type of margin where two continental plates collide, creating fold mountains
  4. 5. A type of boundary where two plates slide past each other, often causing earthquakes
  5. 7. An example of a fold mountain range formed due to the collision of the Eurasian and Indo-Australian plates
  6. 9. The outermost section of the earth’s structure
  7. 10. A layer of the earth that contains moving molten currents of magma
  8. 11. A boundary where an oceanic plate is forced beneath a continental plate
  9. 14. The instrument used to detect and record earthquake waves
  10. 17. The point on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake