Plate Tectonics
Across
- 4. a break in a rock with movement
- 5. concentration of heat in the mantle
- 8. device for recording waves
- 12. a break in a rock without movement
- 13. outer portion of the earth
- 15. two plates slide past
- 16. science that study the earth
- 17. central part of the earth
- 19. chain of volcanoes
- 20. denser and thin crust
- 23. group of mountains
- 24. less dense and thicker crust
- 25. The outer part of the Earth consisting of the crust and upper mantle
- 28. two plates move apart
- 29. first type of seismic wave
- 30. center point of the earthquake
Down
- 1. part of the earth between the core and the the crust
- 2. shaking of the surface of the Earth
- 3. process or the bending of crust towards mantle
- 6. consolidated mixture of minerals
- 7. method uses distance to locate epicenter
- 9. theory as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly
- 10. upper layer of the earth's mantle, below the lithosphere
- 11. central valley on an ocean floor
- 14. geologic feature in convergent
- 18. A long, narrow valley lying between two normal geologic faults
- 21. two plates collide
- 22. second type of seismic wave
- 23. molten rock
- 26. depression in the seafloor produced by subduction
- 27. transfer of energy that travels through a medium