Tectonic Plate Crossword
Across
- 2. Much hotter layer of the earth, has the ability to flow
- 6. Waves that travel along earths outer layer
- 7. Earthquake that occurs before the larger seismic event
- 10. The most outer layer of the earth
- 11. Stress caused by squeezing
- 13. The place (at ground level) where the earthquake happens
- 14. Boundaries that come together
- 18. The theory of ...
- 20. Boundaries that move apart
- 23. Stress caused by passing eachother
- 25. The parts of the earths crust broken up
- 28. Places where the mantle is extremely hot
- 29. Who proposed the theory of continental drift?
- 31. Coned shaped volcano, explosive eruptions, most common type of volcano
- 34. Push-pull waves
- 35. A slip-strike fault running along the coastline from San Francisco to California
- 36. Compressed, bends in a downwards motion
- 37. A scale used to measure the intensity of an earthquake
- 38. Hot fluid or semi-fluid material below or within the earths crust
- 40. Smaller earthquakes that happen after the initial earthquake
- 41. Lowest part of a syncline
- 42. Low viscosity lava, relatively hot
- 46. Area's of earths surface through which magma and volcanic gasses pass
- 47. Earthquake that happens in the middle of a plate
- 48. Largest recorded shock
- 50. The line along which rock breaks and moves
Down
- 1. All pyroclastic material that is ejected from a volcano
- 3. High viscosity lava, blocky, rough lava flow
- 4. Boundaries that slide past each other
- 5. A form of closed lava tube that forms when lava flows into water and cools rapidly
- 8. Moderately explosive, small in size, steep slopes
- 9. Extremely hot layer of the earth, has a lot of pressure
- 11. A current in a fluid that results from convection
- 12. A fault caused by rocks being compressed that one plate moves up while the other descends below it
- 15. Compressed, bends in an upwards motion
- 16. When the earths crust is pushed up from its sides
- 17. Has so much pressure is basically a solid metal
- 18. Plates under continents
- 19. Where 80% of the worlds earthquakes happen
- 21. Earthquake that happens along a plate boundary
- 22. Sleeping volcano
- 24. Stress caused by pulling
- 26. A fault where rocks move away from eachother due to land moving apart
- 27. A huge ocean wave caused by an earthquake
- 28. What mountain range was formed when the Indian and Eurasian plate crashed
- 30. A fault when two plates slide in a lateral motion past eachother
- 32. A tube formed by cooling and solidifying of the lava walls
- 33. Super continent that existed 200 million years ago
- 34. Debris material formed by a volcanic eruption
- 36. Non-explosive eruptions, not very steep but can be big
- 39. Hot molten or semi-fluid rock erupted from a volcano or fissure
- 43. No longer a volcano
- 44. Plates under the ocean
- 45. The starting point of an earthquake
- 49. Constantly erupting volcano