Brinley Wourms

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Across
  1. 2. the idea that Earth's surface is broken into plates
  2. 4. the idea that many kinds of rocks form flat, horizontal layers
  3. 6. the central opening in a volcanic area through which magma may flow
  4. 9. hot, molten rock, below the Earth's surface
  5. 12. the name for the super large continent
  6. 13. a sensitive device that detects the shaking of Earth's crust during an earthquake
  7. 14. heat from below Earth's surface
  8. 16. giant ocean waves formed when an earthquake occurs under the ocean floor
  9. 17. the idea that a super continent split apart into pieces, the continents, which drifted in time to their present location
  10. 19. a very hot part of the Earth's mantle, where magma can melt through a plate moving above it
  11. 20. a huge crack in the Earth's crust
  12. 21. magma that reaches the Earth's surface and flows out of a vent
Down
  1. 1. a vibration that spreads out away from a focus when an earthquake happens
  2. 3. the amount of energy released by an earthquake
  3. 5. the boundary where plates are sliding past each other
  4. 7. the boundary where plates are colliding
  5. 8. the sliding of a denser ocean plate under another plate when they collide
  6. 10. the boundary where plates are moving apart from each other
  7. 11. a cup like hollow that forms at the top of a volcano around the vent
  8. 15. the point on Earth's surface directly above the focus
  9. 18. Earth's solid, rocky surface containing the continents and ocean floor
  10. 20. the point in the earth where an earthquake actually starts