Vocab Puzzle
Across
- 3. A break or other defect in an electrical circuit or piece of machinery
- 6. A series of more or less connected mountains ranged in a line. a series of mountains, or of more or less parallel lines of mountains, closely related, as in origin.
- 8. Plate tectonics is a scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements.
- 9. long, narrow, deep depression in the ocean floor, typically one running parallel to a plate boundary and marking a subduction zone.
Down
- 1. The central point of something, typically a difficult or unpleasant situation.
- 2. sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
- 4. The mainland of Europe as distinct from the British Isles.
- 5. something that is shaking the earth.
- 7. A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust.