Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 3. The most central part of the Earth
  2. 6. When two plates move away from each other
  3. 8. The most upper part of the mantle, but it is below the lithosphere
  4. 9. A high sea wave caused by an underwater earthquake
  5. 10. Relating to earthquakes and other vibrations
  6. 11. When two plates collide
  7. 14. An instrument that measures the details of an earthquake
  8. 15. The very top of Earth's crust
  9. 17. A mountain created by convergent plates that erupts with magma
  10. 19. wegener A german climatologist, geologist, geophysicist, meteorologist, and polar researcher
Down
  1. 1. The ground turns to quicksand due to the shaking of the Earth
  2. 2. scale A numerical scale that expresses the magnitude of an earthquake
  3. 4. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground
  4. 5. The supercontinent that existed 200 million years ago
  5. 7. When two plates move past each other
  6. 12. The point on Earth's surface directly above the focus
  7. 13. Seismic waves that move up and down through solids, liquids, and gases
  8. 14. Seismic waves that move side to side only through solids
  9. 16. The place in Earth's crust where an earthquake originates
  10. 18. The layer between the core and the crust