Plate Tectonic Crossword

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