Alexis Wourms D1-3 Review
Across
- 3. a sensitive device that detects the shaking of Earth's crust during an earthquake
- 6. Earth's solid, rocky surface
- 8. the boundary where plates are colliding
- 12. the idea that a super continent split apart into pieces, the continents, which drifted in time to their present location
- 14. a huge crack in the Earth's crust
- 15. the central opening in a volcanic area through which magma may flow
- 16. the idea that the Earth's surface is broken into plates
- 19. a cup like hollow that forms at the top of a volcano around the vent
- 21. the boundary where plates are moving apart from each other
Down
- 1. the idea that many kinds of rocks form flat, horizontal layers
- 2. the sliding of a denser ocean plate under another plate when they collide
- 4. a vibration that spreads out from a focus when a earthquake happens
- 5. a very hot part of the Earth's mantle, where magma can melt through a plate moving above it
- 7. heat from below the Earth's surface
- 9. hot,molten rock,below the Earth's surface
- 10. the boundary where plates are sliding past each other
- 11. the name for the large super continent
- 13. the amount of energy released by an earthquake
- 17. magma that reaches the Earth's surface and flows out of a vent
- 18. the point in the earth where an earthquake actually starts \
- 20. giant ocean waves formed when an earthquake occurs under the ocean floor