Across
- 2. denser, thinner crust type
- 3. place at which the energy is released
- 5. floats higher on the mantle
- 6. measures north and south
- 8. extremely explosive volcanoes
- 9. the plate boundary we live on top of
- 11. receipt of solar radiation hitting earths surface
- 13. ____ magnitude scale used to measure earthquake
- 15. small but very steep volcanoes
- 17. plates moving away from each other
Down
- 1. head on collision between plates
- 4. the big island of Hawaiian is this type of volcanoe
- 7. laws dealing with the natural laws of energy
- 10. movement of a material because of temperature
- 12. layer of the earth that the plates float atop of
- 14. nicknamed meridians
- 16. release of energy from the earth