Across
- 3. An area along a fault where relatively few earthquakes have occurred recently but where strong earthquakes have occurred in the past.
- 8. The sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape
- 9. The layer underneath the lithosphere
- 13. A measure of the strength of an earthquake
- 14. In Earth science, the amount of damage caused by an earthquake
Down
- 1. The location within Earth along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs
- 2. A wave of energy that travels through the Earth and away from an earthquake in all directions
- 4. Scientists suggest that in this cycle, differences in density cause hot, plastic like rock to be forced upward toward the surface, cool, and sink.
- 5. A scientific theory that describes the large-scale motion of Earth's lithosphere
- 6. The crust and upper mantle of the earth
- 7. A break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another
- 10. A movement or trembling of the ground that is caused by a sudden release of energy when rocks along a fault move
- 11. The point on Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s starting point or focus
- 12. A giant ocean wave that forms after a volcanic eruption, submarine earthquake, or landslide