Movers and Shakers Vocab

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Across
  1. 1. Tectonics a theory explaining the earth's structure and many other phenomenons
  2. 3. Zone sites of down dwelling on the earth's lithosphere
  3. 5. Waves a seismic wave when rock particles vibrate at right angles to the direction of wave travel
  4. 6. Boundary an actively deforming region where two (or more) tectonic plates move toward one another and collide
  5. 8. result of a sudden release of a lot of energy in earths crust that creates seismic waves
  6. 11. Core ball of solid nickel and iron
  7. 14. Core A liquid ball of nickel and iron
  8. 15. between the crust and the outer core
  9. 16. Waves a seismic wave when rock particles vibrate parallel to the direction of wave travel
  10. 17. Floor Spreading oceanic crust is formed by convective upwelling of magma
Down
  1. 2. the outermost shell of a planet that is rocky
  2. 4. Boundary a linear feature that exists between two tectonic plates that are slowly moving away from each other
  3. 6. Current the movement of molecules in fluids
  4. 7. an end in a volume of rock as a result of earth movement
  5. 9. Fault a strike slip fault where a sudden change in form, displacement, or direction has occured
  6. 10. directly above the point where an earthquake or explosion begins/ originates
  7. 12. a large area of exposed Precambrian crystalline igneous and high-grade metamorphic rocks
  8. 13. Waves a seismic wave that travels across the surface of the earth as to through it