Tectonics, Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Across
- 1. The measure of an earthquake
- 3. Means "builder" in Greek
- 4. The location of the surface directly above the focus
- 5. Tectonics, Earthquakes and ________
- 6. Largest tectonic plate
- 10. Plate that we live on
- 12. The slowest type of wave
- 14. A large supercontinent containing all the Earths continents
- 16. Most famous fault boundary
- 18. When tectonic plates slide past eachother
- 22. Drift
- 23. When tectonic plates move together they _______
- 24. The layer of the earth found between the core and crust
- 26. The scale that measures the magnitude of earthquakes
- 30. Slow wave that travels only through solid
Down
- 2. A zone of weak,easily deformed rock in the upper mantle
- 7. The very middle layer of the Earth
- 8. Plates collide
- 9. The crust and the upper layer of the mantle make up this layer of rock
- 11. A sudden shaking of the ground
- 13. Most dangerous type of volcano
- 15. Lava that is underground
- 17. Plates move away from eachother
- 19. A type of volcano that is flat
- 20. Deepest trench
- 21. Where the earthquake starts
- 25. A hot liquid that spills out of the volcano
- 27. The layer of the Earth we live on
- 28. Wind,water,glaciers cause _________
- 29. A push-pull wave