Across
- 3. relating to earthquakes or other vibrations of the earth and its crust
- 6. a slight earthquake
- 8. a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action
- 9. a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance
- 10. a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are being or have been erupted from the earth's crust
Down
- 1. the processes that control the structure and properties of the Earth's crust and its evolution through time
- 2. volcanic locales thought to be fed by underlying mantle that is anomalously hot compared with the surrounding mantle
- 4. the most common measure of an earthquake's size
- 5. the motion of molten rock in the mantle as radioactive decay heats up magma, causing it to rise and driving the global-scale flow of magma
- 7. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate