Tectonics - Gouri Rout

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Across
  1. 2. A building technique where counterweights are used to balance shaking caused by an earthquake
  2. 5. The process where the movement of tectonic plates and the compression of rocks can create faults, volcanic mountains as well as fold and lift the Earth's crust
  3. 6. A fault where two tectonic plates move horizontally past each other
  4. 9. The process where weathered rocks are carried away from their source by wind, waves or rivers and dumped elsewhere
  5. 11. Rocks formed from magma with a cool, glassy appearance
  6. 12. They travel through solids and liquids
  7. 15. The sudden release of energy within the Earth's crust that causes shaking of the ground
  8. 17. They travel only through solids, not through liquids
  9. 21. A building technique where the building is lifted above the ground (by a spring etc.) to prevent earthquake damage
  10. 24. It is called lava after reaching the Earth's surface
  11. 25. A cycle vital for all other cycles existing in the biosphere
  12. 26. A lithospheric structure where material inside the Earth erupts to the surface
  13. 27. A fault where the compression of rocks forces the tectonic plate on one side of the fault to move up and over the other side
Down
  1. 1. The point in the Earth's crust where an earthquake begins
  2. 3. A four-digit number that represents a certain rectangular area within a map
  3. 4. An alternative name for a composite volcano
  4. 7. The breakdown and transportation of the Earth's surface caused by running water, rain and wind
  5. 8. The transfer of heat by the movement of fluids
  6. 10. One of numerous ways to categorise the factors that affect the Earth
  7. 13. Dense, rocky material under the Earth's crust
  8. 14. A fast moving current of hot gas and rocks emitted from a volcano
  9. 16. The point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus
  10. 17. This type of volcano is prominent in Hawaii
  11. 18. A word that describes rocks changed through the heat and pressure of the Earth's crust
  12. 19. A device that monitors gas emissions and heat coming from a volcano that can help predict an eruption
  13. 20. The thickness of a liquid
  14. 22. Limestone and sandstone are rocks formed from the compaction of __________ material
  15. 23. A fault where two plates are pulled in opposite directions, with one side dropping down