Tectonic Plates

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Across
  1. 2. Isolated places away from the earths' crust where hot magma is being produced.
  2. 3. A bad happening.
  3. 4. The shaking, wavelike movement of the ground in an earthquake
  4. 5. A movement of the tectonic plates that destroys the affected area.
  5. 7. A movement of the tectonic plates that assists the affected area.
  6. 9. When continents seperate and drift across the oceans.
  7. 11. A large mountain that contains magma and can erupt.
  8. 12. The point on the earths' surface directly above the focus.
  9. 14. The place where the quake starts.
  10. 15. Longitudinal seismic waves.
  11. 17. A movement below the ground that causes severe damage.
Down
  1. 1. Earths one plate cracked into numerous masses that move on the athenosphere.
  2. 4. Transverse seismic waves.
  3. 6. Land masses allowing living organisms to dwell.
  4. 8. Boundary where the plates are colliding.
  5. 10. A layer of semi solid rock in the upper mantle.
  6. 13. A tidal wave created after a movement under the sea.
  7. 15. A land mass with living creatures on it.
  8. 16. The instrument used to detect earthquakes.