Chapters 3,4, and 5 vocabulary

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Across
  1. 4. Seismic waves that compress and expand like an accordion
  2. 6. A stream or river that flows into a larger river
  3. 7. An instrument that records and measures an earthquake's seismic waves
  4. 8. The area beneath Earth's surface where rock was under stress begins to break or move
  5. 10. A single number that geologists assign to an earthquake based on the earthquake's size
  6. 11. The point on the surface directly above the focus
  7. 14. A mountain that forms in Earth's crust when molten material, or magma reaches the surface
  8. 15. Heat Transfer by the movement of a fluid
Down
  1. 1. Seismic waves that can vibrate from side to side or up and down
  2. 2. Scale Geologists use to rate the total energy that an earthquake releases
  3. 3. Heat transfer between materials that are touching
  4. 5. The shaking and trembling resulting in movement of rock beneath Earth's surface
  5. 9. A loop like bend in the course of a river
  6. 12. The transfer of energy that is carried in rays like light
  7. 13. A metal, a solid middle layer,and a rocky outer layer