Tectonic Activity

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Across
  1. 2. The instrument that measures the motions of the ground.
  2. 6. Leaving home and moving to a safer location.
  3. 8. A mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapour, and gas are or have been erupted from the earth's crust.
  4. 9. An Indonesian word for a rapidly flowing mixture of rock debris and water. Sometimes referred to as m mud flows.
  5. 11. Movement withing the Earth, which moves tectonic plates.
  6. 14. When a more dense plate moves under a less dense plate.
  7. 15. A sudden violent shaking of the ground
  8. 18. Molten rock under the surface of the Earth.
  9. 19. The point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus.
Down
  1. 1. Plates that move towards each other.
  2. 3. A scale for measuring the effects of earthquakes.
  3. 4. Plates that move away from each other.
  4. 5. The location where the earthquake begins.
  5. 7. Used to measure the power of an earthquake
  6. 10. A volcanic center
  7. 11. Plates that slide past each other.
  8. 12. Islands created by volcanoes.
  9. 13. These cause earthquakes and volcanoes.
  10. 16. Can check any movement withing the rocks.
  11. 17. A measurement of the strength of an earthquake.