Across
- 4. A crack in Earth's surface caused by the movement of plates.
- 7. scientist that created the idea of continental drift.
- 8. A type of stress that occurs from two things being pushed together.
- 10. The type of wall that sits under the fault line.
- 13. A large underwater mountain range that spews magma.
- 18. Large sections of land that are moved by convection currents in the mantle.
- 19. The theory that plates move because of convection currents in the mantle.
- 20. The measure of total energy of an earthquake.
Down
- 1. A plate boundary in which two plates move apart.
- 2. A type of plate boundary where two plates move towards each other.
- 3. A pulling or pushing force on rocks.
- 5. A type of boundary where two plates will slide past each other. This usually causes earthquakes.
- 6. A process where magma from mid-ocean ridges hardens into rock which gets pushed outwards.
- 9. The process where denser rocks sink back into the mantle
- 11. A large trench where rocks subduct.
- 12. A upwords fold in Earth's crust caused by compression.
- 14. A mountain that has a crack in the earth's surface that allows magma to flow up..
- 15. The type of wall that sits over the fault line.
- 16. A super continent that existed 200-300 million years ago.
- 17. A downwards fold in Earth's crust caused by compression
