Across
- 4. Dan McKenzie used this to help him with his work on plate tectonics but it was very very slow!
- 6. Earthquakes don't happen over 700km below ground because the rocks are very ___
- 8. Tropical plant fossils have been found here suggesting it used to be on a warmer bit of the earth than it is now!
- 10. This country is on the boarder of three tectonic plates so has a lot of earthquakes
- 11. The country Dan McKenzie was in when he published his ideas about plate tectonics (He was famous here but not in England!)
- 12. A magnitude 2 earthquake moves the earth ___ times more than a magnitude 1 earthquake.
Down
- 1. The most dangerous earthquakes are the opposite of deep.
- 2. The piece of equipment used to measure the movement of the earth.
- 3. People used to think earthquakes were caused by these happening under the earth.
- 5. The name of the ocean wave created by an earthquake
- 7. Mesosaur fossils are only found in South America and
- 9. An earthquake's energy travels in _____.