Across
- 1. A break in a body of rock along which one block slides relative to another
- 3. The process by which cells use oxygen to produce energy from food
- 6. The point on the earth's surface directly above an earthquake's starting point, or focus
- 7. The point along a fault at which the first motion of an earthquake occurs
- 9. Blocks of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, outermost part of the mantle
- 12. The boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
- 13. Openings in a leaf or stem of a plant that enable gas exchange to occur
Down
- 2. The boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
- 3. A green pigment that captures light energy for photosynthesis
- 4. The process by which new oceanic lithosphere forms as magma rises toward the surface and solidifies
- 5. The process by which plants release water vapor into the air through stomata also the release of water vapor into the air by other organisms
- 8. Waves of energy that travels through the earth and away from an earthquake in all directions
- 10. The boundary formed by the collision of 2 lithospheric plates
- 11. Tectonics The theory that explains how large pieces of the earth's outermost layer, called tectonic plates, move and change shape