Across
- 1. type of fault where rock moves toward one another.
- 5. seismic waves that can travel through all material.
- 7. common along divergent plate boundaries and oceanic hot spots.
- 9. the vibrations in the ground that result in breaks along the earth's lithosphere.
- 12. scientist who studies earthquakes.
- 16. a break in Earth's lithosphere where one block of rock moves past/away/toward another.
- 17. instrument that measures and records ground motion and the distance of seismic waves.
- 18. a graphical illustration of seismic waves.
- 19. volcanoes that are not associated with plate boundaries
Down
- 2. a liquid's resistance to flow.
- 3. type of fault where rock moves away from each other.
- 4. a vent in the earth's crust where molten rock flows.
- 6. tiny particles of volcanic rock that fries out when a volcano erupts.
- 8. type of fault where rock moves horizontally past one another.
- 10. the point above the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake.
- 11. molten rock below the earth's surface.
- 13. molten rock that has erupted onto the earth's surface.
- 14. seismic waves that cannot travel through liquid.
- 15. large, steep-sided volcanoes that result from explosive eruptions of andesitic/rhyolitic lava & ash along convergent plate boundaries.
- 16. the point underground where an earthquake starts.
