earthquake and waves crossword puzzle
Across
- 3. A force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume
- 5. Pushes a mass of rock in tow opposite directions
- 7. Two blocks are pulled apart by tension (divergent plate boundary)
- 8. an area of many fractured pieces of crust along a large fault
- 9. a slow wave that moves like ripples in a pond causing much damage.
- 15. one plate goes under another during collision forming a deep trenches where the two plates meet
- 21. A natural break or crack in the rocks that make up earth’s crust, along which rocks have moved relative to one another.
- 22. Waves that carry energy of an earthquake away from the focus; there are three types
- 24. when divergent boundaries occur within a continent, they cause enormous splits in the crust
- 25. travel in all directions from the focus through the body of the Earth inner layers (core, mantle, crust).
- 27. curved line of volcanoes that forms parallel to plate boundaries
- 29. creates a permanent change in the shape of a rock; usually occurs when rocks are weak or hot
Down
- 1. point on the surface directly above the focus
- 2. Two blocks of rock slide horizontally past each other in opposite directions caused by SHEAR stress.
- 4. Do not travel through the Earth but instead they are constrained to travel along the surface of the Earth only from the epicenter(outer crust).
- 5. Two blocks of rock slide horizontally past each other in opposite directions caused by SHEAR stress.
- 6. Two blocks of rock are pushed together by compression (convergent boundary)
- 10. the location under the Earth where the earthquake actually originated
- 11. Two blocks are pulled apart by tension (divergent plate boundary)
- 12. Two blocks of rock are pushed together by compression (convergent boundary)
- 13. tension causes oceanic crust to spread allowing hot rock from mantle to rise creating high ridges
- 14. A change in the shape of a rock caused by stress; there are two
- 16. Change in rock that is NOT permanent; when stress is removed rock goes back to original shape
- 17. Vibrates forward and backward in the direction of the wave AND vibrates up and down perpendicular to the direction of the wave.
- 18. a high temperature
- 19. collision between two continental plates
- 20. divided into several plates that glide over the plastic-like and less rigid asthenosphere (upper mantle).
- 23. Squeezes rock until it folds or breaks
- 26. Sudden release of energy in the earths crust that causes vibrations in the ground
- 28. Pulls on the crust, stretching rock so it becomes thinner in the middle