Earthquake & Volcano Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. type of fault where rock moves toward one another.
  2. 5. seismic waves that can travel through all material.
  3. 7. common along divergent plate boundaries and oceanic hot spots.
  4. 9. the vibrations in the ground that result in breaks along the earth's lithosphere.
  5. 12. scientist who studies earthquakes.
  6. 16. a break in Earth's lithosphere where one block of rock moves past/away/toward another.
  7. 17. instrument that measures and records ground motion and the distance of seismic waves.
  8. 18. a graphical illustration of seismic waves.
  9. 19. volcanoes that are not associated with plate boundaries
Down
  1. 2. a liquid's resistance to flow.
  2. 3. type of fault where rock moves away from each other.
  3. 4. a vent in the earth's crust where molten rock flows.
  4. 6. tiny particles of volcanic rock that fries out when a volcano erupts.
  5. 8. type of fault where rock moves horizontally past one another.
  6. 10. the point above the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
  7. 11. molten rock below the earth's surface.
  8. 13. molten rock that has erupted onto the earth's surface.
  9. 14. seismic waves that cannot travel through liquid.
  10. 15. large, steep-sided volcanoes that result from explosive eruptions of andesitic/rhyolitic lava & ash along convergent plate boundaries.
  11. 16. the point underground where an earthquake starts.