Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 4. (instruments used to record the motion of the ground during an earthquake)
  2. 6. (an opening in the Earth's crust through which lava, ash, and gases erupt)
  3. 8. Waves (an elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake or other means)
  4. 9. Plate Boundary (occurs when two tectonic plates move away from each other)
  5. 10. (long, narrow depressions on the seafloor)
  6. 11. (a concentration or centring of attention on a stimulus)
  7. 12. (a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movements)
  8. 13. Convection (Mantle convection describes the movement of the mantle as it transfers heat from the white-hot core to the brittle lithosphere)
  9. 16. (the great size or extent of something)
Down
  1. 1. (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.)
  2. 2. ridges (a sea floor mountain system formed by plate tectonics) floor spreading (process in which tectonic plates split apart from each other)
  3. 3. of Plate Tectonic (Earth's outer shell is divided into several plates that glide over the Earth's rocky inner layer above the soft core)
  4. 5. Plate Boundary (when two plates come together)
  5. 7. Push (The newly-formed plates slide sideways off these high areas, pushing the plate in front of them resulting in a _____-____ mechanism)
  6. 10. Plate Boundary (occurs when two tectonic plates move past one another)
  7. 14. (the location on the surface of the Earth directly above where the earthquake starts)
  8. 15. Pull (The force exerted by the weight of the subducted slab on the plate it is attached to)