Chapter 1 - The Earth

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Across
  1. 3. this is the middle layer of the earth
  2. 5. the middle layer of the earth is made up mostly of this
  3. 7. Ireland is on this plate
  4. 10. the Alpine fold mountains are _____ than the Armoricans
  5. 14. the inner most layer of the earth
  6. 15. the supercontinent where all the continents were joined together
  7. 16. the Mid Atlantic Ridge happened because the Eurasian and ____ plate pulled apart
  8. 17. a dormant volcano in Ecuador
  9. 20. San Francisco lies along this fault and suffers many earthquakes as a result
  10. 22. earthquakes are measured on this scale
  11. 23. these fold mountains are 250 million years old
  12. 25. a volcanic island
  13. 26. in 2004 a huge tsunami destroyed towns and killed thousands here
  14. 27. an active volcano in Italy
  15. 28. these lie on the earths surface like a jigsaw
Down
  1. 1. magma reaches the surface of a volcano through this
  2. 2. an extinct volcano in Ireland
  3. 4. measure earthquakes
  4. 6. the Mid Atlantic Ridge is an example of this
  5. 8. the worlds youngest fold mountains
  6. 9. these pieces of earth can crash into each other or
  7. 11. this is when an earthquake happens at sea
  8. 12. when an earthquake occurs it send these out
  9. 13. the point on the ground where the strongest effects of an earthquake are felt
  10. 18. Many volcanoes and earthquake occur at this ring of fire
  11. 19. where the earthquake occurs below the ground
  12. 20. in 1906 a powerful earthquake struck here
  13. 21. where plates slide past each other these can occur
  14. 24. this is the layer of the earth on the surface
  15. 26. a volcanic island at the top of the Mid Atlantic Ridge