Earth Vocabulary Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. A single landmass that broke apart 225 million years ago
  2. 5. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
  3. 8. A valley along the ocean floor in which the sea floor sinks back into the mantle
  4. 11. A layer of molten iron and nickel that surrounds the Earth’s inner core
  5. 13. A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
  6. 14. The location in the Earth’s surface below the epicentre
  7. 15. Smaller earthquakes that are after the main earthquake, but in the same place
  8. 17. The surface along where two parts of the Earth’s crust slip past each other during an earthquake
  9. 18. A valley that forms when two plates move apart
  10. 19. The uppermost part of the mantle and crust
Down
  1. 1. Shaking in the Earth’s crust followed by seismic waves
  2. 3. A plate boundary where two plates move towards each over
  3. 4. Underwater mountain range where new seafloor is produced
  4. 6. The layer of rock the forms the Earth’s outer surface
  5. 7. The soft layer of the mantle where the lithosphere floats on
  6. 9. A fault that has moved in the past 10,000 years
  7. 10. Wave Shock waves created by rock movement along the faults
  8. 12. Continents slowly move across the Earth’s surface
  9. 16. The layer of molten rock between the crust and the core