Across
- 4. (2 words) type of fault where plates move past each other horizontally
- 5. a vent or fissure in Earth’s surface through which magma and gases are expelled
- 8. a movement or trembling of the ground that is caused by a sudden release of energy when rocks along a fault move
- 9. the boundary between two tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
- 11. the boundary between tectonic plates that are colliding
- 13. type of fault where hanging wall moves down relative to the footwall
- 14. the point Earth’s surface directly above an earthquake’s starting point or focus
- 15. a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake, submarine landslide, or other disturbance
- 16. (2 words) a sudden return of elastically deformed rock to its undeformed shape
Down
- 1. the supercontinent that formed 300 million years ago and that began to break up 200 million years ago
- 2. (2 words)a block of lithosphere that consists of the crust and the rigid, uppermost part of the mantle
- 3. the boundary between two tectonic plates that are moving away from each other
- 6. (2 words) materials or substances such as minerals, forests, water, and fertile land that occur in nature and can be used for economic gain
- 7. the bending, tilting, and breaking of Earth’s crust, the change in the shape of a rock in response to stress
- 10. (2 words) a wave of energy that travels through Earth and away from an earthquake in all directions
- 12. type of fault where hanging wall moves up relative to footwall