Volcanoes and Earthquakes
Across
- 3. the crust and rigid upper mantle, which is divided into slow-moving tectonic plates
- 5. a long, deep depression in the ocean floor, formed where one plate subducts beneath another at a convergent plate boundary
- 6. a geological process at convergent boundaries where one tectonic plate sinks beneath another plate
- 7. a crack in a large section of rock where the two sides have slid past one another
- 8. an unusually hot part of the Earth's mantle, which often results in magma rising up through the crust to form a volcano; as a tectonic plate moves slowly over a hotspot, a chain of volcanoes can form
- 9. a zone of intense volcanic and earthquake activity that surrounds the Pacific Ocean
Down
- 1. a section of the Earth's crust and upper mantle; the slow movement of tectonic plates around the surface of the planet is responsible for continental drift and most earthquakes and volcanoes
- 2. the starting point of an earthquake
- 3. hot liquid rock that erupts from a volcano and cools to form an igneous rock
- 4. the point on the Earth's surface directly above the starting point of an earthquake