Earthquakes Crossword Puzzle

3. A change in the shape of the rock caused by stress.
5. When the plates collide into each other, this boundary is created.
7. These are waves that carry energy of an earthquake away from the focus.
10. The location under the Earth where the earthquake originally started.
11. Waves that travel in all directions from the focus through the body of the Earth.
12. arcs Curved line of volcanoes that forms parallel to plate boundaries.
18. This happens when divergent boundaries occur within a continent, they cause enormous splits in the crust.
19. A force that acts on rocks to change their shape or volume.
20. This creates a permanent change in the rock.
21. Sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust.
23. In a convergent boundary, when one side of rock moves relative to the other.
24. This boundary is created when plates move apart from each other.
26. Are very slow waves, and they are the most damaging wave.
29. A wave that causes the ground to shake and moves in a up and down.
30. A natural crack or break in the rock.

1. This is an area of many fractured pieces of crust along a large fault.
2. One plate goes under the other during collision forming a deep trench.
4. The pull on the crust, stretching rock so it becomes thinner in the middle.
6. Change in a rock that is not permanent.
8. The theory that parts of the Earth are split into plates and that those plates glide over the mantle.
9. ocean-ridges The tension that causes oceanic crust to spread allowing hot rock from mantle top rise creating high ridges.
13. Created by the collision of two continental plates.
14. This is when rock gets squeezed until it folds or breaks.
15. When two blocks of rocks slide past each other in opposite directions.
16. When a mass of rock gets pushed in two opposite directions.
17. Waves that travel only on the surface of the Earth.
22. This boundary is created when plates slide horizontally past each other they form a fault, or a break in the rock of the crust.
25. When one block of rock above the fault gets pushed down.
27. Point of the surface directly above the focus.
28. The energy that transfers from one person to another, and product from the sun.