Plate Tectonics
Across
- 3. The most central part of the Earth
- 6. When two plates move away from each other
- 8. The most upper part of the mantle, but it is below the lithosphere
- 9. A high sea wave caused by an underwater earthquake
- 10. Relating to earthquakes and other vibrations
- 11. When two plates collide
- 14. An instrument that measures the details of an earthquake
- 15. The very top of Earth's crust
- 17. A mountain created by convergent plates that erupts with magma
- 19. wegener A german climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher
Down
- 1. The ground turns to quicksand due to the shaking of the Earth
- 2. scale A numerical scale that expresses the magnitude of an earthquake
- 4. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground
- 5. The supercontinent that existed 200 million years ago
- 7. When two plates move past each other
- 12. The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus
- 13. Seismic waves that move up and down through solids, liquids, and gases
- 14. Seismic waves that move side to side only through solids
- 16. The place in Earth's crust where an earthquake originates
- 18. The layer between the core and the crust