Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Across
- 7. The second fastest type of seismic wave.
- 8. Waves of energy that travel through the Earth.
- 10. Fragments of rock that are created by explosive volcanic eruptions.
- 12. An instrument located at or near the surface of the Earth that records seismic waves.
- 13. A break in the Earth’s crust along which blocks of the crust slide relative to one another due to tectonic forces.
Down
- 1. The fastest type of seismic wave.
- 2. The point on the Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s starting point.
- 3. A funnel-shaped pit around the central vent of a volcano.
- 4. A mountain that forms when molten rock, called magma, is forced to the Earth’s surface.
- 5. A place on Earth’s surface that is directly above a column of rising magma called a mantle plume.
- 6. The study of earthquakes.
- 9. A circular depression that forms when a magma chamber empties and causes the ground above to sink.
- 11. A tracing of earthquake motion created by a seismograph.
- 13. The point inside the Earth where an earthquake begins.
- 14. Magma that flows onto the Earth’s surface.