Across
- 1. Type of boundary where tectonic plates move toward each other
- 4. A crack or fracture in Earth's crust
- 5. Instrument used to detect seismic waves
- 7. The outermost solid layer of the Earth
- 12. The process of forming mountains due to the collision of continental plates
- 13. Landform resulting from compression at a continental-continental collision
- 14. The movement of Earth's plates
- 15. A sudden shaking of the ground caused by plate movement
Down
- 2. Plates involved in subduction — one sinks, one overrides (2 words)
- 3. Molten rock that erupts from a volcano
- 6. A region of volcanoes formed above a subducting plate (2 words)
- 8. Process where one tectonic plate sinks beneath another
- 9. Point on Earth's surface directly above where an earthquake originates
- 10. A long narrow depression in the ocean floor formed by subduction
- 11. Molten rock beneath Earth's surface