Tectonic Plates
Across
- 1. When magma and ash bursts from the ground
- 3. When two plates move away from each other
- 4. Supercontinent that excited millions of years ago
- 7. Most destructive eruption in the history of the U.S
- 8. The earth's innermost layer (very hot)
- 11. When tectonic plates collide, fold upward, and form mountain ranges
- 13. A line that traces a geological fault
- 14. When one plate moves underneath another plate
- 15. Layer of Earth's crust that lies underneath the 7 continents
- 18. Fault line that goes through California
- 19. Where two plates meet
- 20. Melted rock ON the earth's surface
Down
- 2. Theory that the continents once existed as one massive continent and then drifted apart
- 5. A smaller earthquake following the main shock
- 6. When the ground shakes
- 9. The earth's middle layer (comes after the crust)
- 10. When two plates move towards each other
- 12. The earth's outermost shell
- 16. Melted rock UNDERNEATH the earth's surface
- 17. Large volcanic Crater, formed when the mouth of a volcano collapses after an eruption