Plate Tectonics Crossword

4. The location underground where an earthquake begins
6. The transfer of heat energy by the movement of heated fluid
8. An area around the edge of the Pacific Ocean with lots of volcanoes and earthquakes
11. Deep underwater canyons
12. An example of a conservative plate margin
13. The supercontinent that Alfred Wegener believed to exist
15. The longest underwater chain of mountains in the world
16. An island that has formed as a result of a constructive margin
18. Waves of energy that travel through the Earth during an earthquake
19. Where two plates move apart, allowing magma to rise and create new crust

1. The scale used to measure the strength or magnitude of an earthquake
2. A large, rigid section of the Earth’s crust
3. The type of margin where two continental plates collide, creating fold mountains
5. A type of boundary where two plates slide past each other, often causing earthquakes
7. An example of a fold mountain range formed due to the collision of the Eurasian and Indo-Australian plates
9. The outermost section of the earth’s structure
10. A layer of the earth that contains moving molten currents of magma
11. A boundary where an oceanic plate is forced beneath a continental plate
14. The instrument used to detect and record earthquake waves
17. The point on the Earth’s surface directly above the focus of an earthquake