Across
- 2. plate material containing less dense granite, usually found underground or on continental land
- 5. liquidy rock that flows out of a volcano and onto the Earth’s surface
- 6. liquidy rock found below or within the Earth’s crust
- 9. a type of rock formed when layers of sediment are compressed by heavy layers of sediment above
- 12. how deep or far down into the Earth an earthquake is occurring
- 14. loose earth materials, such as sand, soil and rocks, found on the surface of the Earth
- 15. plate material containing dense basalt rock that is usually found under the ocean
- 16. the surface of the Earth
- 17. the section of the crust between earthquake lines
- 18. openings, or vents where lava, small rocks, and steam erupt onto the Earth's surface
Down
- 1. under the crust where it is hot and rock begins to melt, move & shift
- 3. the point on Earth’s surface directly above where an earthquake occurred
- 4. the reason something has occurred or is occuring
- 7. formed when heat and pressure change the original rock into a completely new rock
- 8. the size of something
- 10. the movement of the bedrock caused by plates getting stuck on each other and then roughly moving past each other
- 11. solid rock found everywhere on Earth, often under sediments, such as soil, sand, dirt and broken rocks
- 13. a smaller earthquake following the main shock of a large earthquake
- 15. resources that people are mining or drilling for that are found in gaps or layers within solid rock
- 16. two things or events happening together or at the same time, but not causing one another