Plate Tectonics Vocaulary

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Across
  1. 2. places where plates slide sideways past each other
  2. 3. two plates comes together
  3. 6. the part of the earth's crust that makes up the seafloor
  4. 9. a point at which rays of light, heat, or other radiation meet after being refracted or refracted
  5. 10. layer of the earth between the solid inner core and lower mantle
  6. 14. a large depression formed when a volcano erupts and collapses
  7. 16. the mostly solid bulk of earth's interior
  8. 18. the eruption of molten rock (magma) onto the surface of a planet
  9. 21. a large plume of hot mantle material rising from deep within the earth
Down
  1. 1. abroad runded volcano that is built up by successive outpourings of very fluid lava
  2. 4. a dip-slip fault in which the block above the fault has moved downward relative to the block below
  3. 5. sudden movement of the earth's lithosphere
  4. 7. two tectonic plates move away from each other
  5. 8. a fracture or zone of fractures between two blocks of rock
  6. 11. the first waves to arrive at a seismograph
  7. 12. a seismic body wave that shakes the ground back and forth
  8. 13. anything thrown into the air during a volcanic eruption
  9. 15. a mixture of molten and semi-molten rock found beneath the surface of the earth
  10. 17. comes out of a volcano
  11. 19. built from particles and blobs of congealed lava ejected from a single vent
  12. 20. is slid and 90% iron