Plate Tectonics Vocaulary

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