Across
- 1. A place were a Ridge system is the most extensive chain of mountains on Earth
- 5. the layer of Earth between the core and the
- 7. The point of origin of an earthquake
- 9. A layer of the earth’s crust that lies underneath the contienents
- 11. the result of sudden movement along faults within the Earth
- 13. A hot, malleable semi liquid zone in the upper mantle, directly underneath the lithosphere
- 15. A scientist, who Made the original argument that Pangea even
- 16. The exact opposite of a convergent boundary
- 18. a scientist who studies fossils
- 19. Over 200 million years ago, this Was a large super-continent, roamed by
Down
- 2. A layer of the earth’s crust that lies underneath the
- 3. A logarithmic scale, from 1 to 10 indicating the intensity of an earthquake, from 1 being the smallest intensity, to 10 being the highest intensity of an earthquake
- 4. is formed when very hot rock rises from the mantle and erupts through earth’s crust
- 6. Large pieces of rock which are in the lithosphere of the earth is divided into a small number of plates which float on and travel independently over the mantle
- 8. melted rock on Earth’s surface
- 9. Where tectonic plates converge
- 10. melted rock beneath Earth’s surface
- 12. the sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust into the mantle beneath another plate.
- 14. Any Instrument used to record, and measure vibrations of earthquakes
- 17. The outermost layer of earth
