Earthquake Vocab
Across
- 5. rocks into large sections called plate tectonics.
- 6. The shaking and trembling that comes from the
- 8. direction.
- 9. Earth’s outermost layer which is made up of
- 10. rocks on either side of the fault slip past each other sideways with little up or
- 11. of rock beneath Earth’s surface.
- 13. Tension forces in Earth’s crust cause normal faults.
- 14. Waves that transmit the energy released by an earthquake.
Down
- 1. point at the surface of the Earth above the focus
- 2. point inside the crust where the pressure is released.
- 3. of Earth’s lithosphere move they cause stress on the crust.
- 4. A break in Earth’s crust.
- 7. same structure as a normal fault, but the blocks move in the
- 12. motion