Ch 21 Handout
Across
- 6. The man who came up with the Theory of Plate Tectonics
- 7. Fault where the hanging wall is pushed down
- 8. Earthquakes are measured by this
- 10. The fast seismic wave
- 11. The largest layer of the Earth
- 13. A seismic sea wave
- 14. Boundary where two plates slide side by side
- 15. What is created when compression causes the rock to form an upfold
Down
- 1. This seismic wave can travel through liquid
- 2. Boundary where the crust is being pulled apart
- 3. Boundary where two plates collide
- 4. This is caused by a sudden release of stress within the crust
- 5. Stress where things are pulled apart
- 9. The point on the surface of the Earth above an earthquake
- 12. Fault where the hanging wall is pushed up