Plate Tectonics and Earthquakes

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Across
  1. 7. Fault with horizontal motion
  2. 8. 90% of the world's earthquakes are along the __________
  3. 9. California's major fault
  4. 12. A plate boundary where plates are moving towards one another
  5. 13. Large wave created by an undersea earthquake
  6. 14. Instrument for measuring earthquakes
  7. 15. Process of one plate sinking beneath another
  8. 17. A plate boundary where plates are sliding past each other
  9. 18. Formed when continental plates spread apart
  10. 19. Discovered continental drift
  11. 20. Southern supercontinent
  12. 22. New oceanic crust is formed during _____ spreading
  13. 25. Northern supercontinent
  14. 26. A more horizontal fault found at convergent boundaries
  15. 28. Supercontinent
Down
  1. 1. A plate boundary where plates are spreading apart
  2. 2. Fault usually found at divergent boundaries
  3. 3. Worldwide ocean
  4. 4. Organism that provided fossil evidence for continental shift
  5. 5. _____ magnitude scale
  6. 6. Underwater mountain chain along plate boundary
  7. 10. The point on the earth's surface above an earthquake's location
  8. 11. Driving force of continental drift
  9. 16. Formed when two oceanic plates converge
  10. 21. The west coast of North America is made up of many _____ terranes
  11. 23. Fault usually found at convergent boundaries
  12. 24. Fault with vertical motion
  13. 27. Break in the Earth's crust/lithosphere