Plate Tectonics
Across
- 3. Measures earthquakes.
- 4. A scale measures intensity of earthquakes.
- 6. Vent in the Earth's surface through which magma and gases erupt.
- 7. Earth's crust that makes up continents.
- 10. Sudden violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction.
- 12. One plate is being pulled under the edge of another.
- 14. ________plates collide.
- 15. Scientist that developed the Continental Drift Theory.
- 17. Steep-sided depression in the ocean floor.
- 18. All the continents where one.
- 19. Transform boundaries tectonic plates are not moving directly toward.
Down
- 1. Rigid outer part of the earth.
- 2. best studied strike-slip fault
- 5. Convergent boundaries tectonic plates.
- 6. Arc-shaped chain of volcanoes formed above a subduction zone.
- 8. How many major plates.
- 9. What plate boundary causes earthquakes.
- 11. Liquid layer of the Earth.
- 13. Place where two plates meet.
- 16. Divergent boundaries tectonic plates are moving -------- from each other.