Tectonic Terms

3. A fault line located in California
4. A Canadian Volcano in B.C.
6. A global event that christian scientists propose as the reason the continents broke apart
7. Mountains that erupt and spew lava
9. Brazil is located on this tectonic plate
12. A Canadian scientist that greatly contributed to the theory of plate tectonics
14. A theory that explains that earth's major landforms are created by movement of plates below the surface
16. Russia is located on this tectonic plate
17. "Father of Plate Tectonics"
18. A super-volcano in Wyoming
19. The center of the earth
20. First documented by Captain James Cook, this volcano has been erupting since 1774

1. The outer most layer of the earth
2. A location where two plates meet
5. When one tectonic plate is forced beneath another plate
8. A place where two plates move away from eachother
10. A volcano in Washington State that famously erupted in 1980
11. The theory that all the continents were one large landmass and broke up and started drifting away from each other
13. When two major chunks of rocks break apart
15. Devices that measure earthquakes