Plate Tectonic Crossword
Across
- 2. - the upper layer of the Earth's mantle
- 3. - when the plates crash into each other
- 7. - ______ and erosion
- 9. - an eruption that explodes and shoots out lava + magma
- 11. - The sudden energy of the Earth's crust shaking
- 13. - granite
- 15. - a volume of rocks across which there has been significant displacements
- 16. - when the plates move sideways
- 17. - the second wave you feel in an earthquake
- 18. - anthracite
- 19. - A ______ ______ based on rocks
- 20. - an area where most volcano and earthquake disasters happen
- 21. - theory of ___________ ______
- 26. - seismic _____
- 28. - the size of the earthquake's power
- 29. - conglomerate
Down
- 1. - the study of volcanoes
- 4. - the seismic wave that shakes the rocks forth and back
- 5. - Scientist that discovered plate tectonics
- 6. - the process in which the oceanic lithosphere is recycled into the earth's mantle
- 8. - when the plates move apart
- 10. - the study of earthquakes
- 12. - the point on the earth's surface vertically above the hypocenter
- 14. - the movement of. tectonic plates is related to ___________ _______ in the earth's mantle
- 22. - the rigid part of the crust
- 23. - when the plates start moving together
- 24. - the earth's lithosphere that is found under the oceans and formed at spreading centers on oceanic ridges
- 25. - a series of water forming a big wave
- 27. - volcanic regions thought to be fed by underlying mantle