Earthquakes Chapter 5

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Across
  1. 3. The waves that produce the most damage
  2. 6. The point in earth where the earthquake begins
  3. 8. The scale that measures the intensity of an earthquake
  4. 10. States that an earthquake is more likely to occur along part of an active fault
  5. 12. The scale that measures the strength of an earthquake
  6. 13. The point on earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s starting point
Down
  1. 1. The plate motion that occurs where two plates push together
  2. 2. The fastest kind of wave
  3. 4. The plate motion that occurs where two plates pull away from each other
  4. 5. Most earthquakes happen near the edges of these
  5. 6. A break in the earth’s crust along which blocks of the crust slide relative to one another
  6. 7. The plate motion that occurs where two plates slide past each other
  7. 9. The sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape
  8. 11. A time method that is the simplest method of determining the epicenter of an earthquake