Unit 2: Lithosphere

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Across
  1. 4. Tool used to detect and record earthquake waves.
  2. 6. Circular movements of molten rock in the mantle that drive plate movement.
  3. 9. Fragmented volcanic material ejected during an eruption.
  4. 10. Idea that continents slowly move across Earth's surface over time.
  5. 11. Downhill movement of soil and rock due to gravity.
  6. 12. Flow of Fast-moving, superheated cloud of gas, ash, and rock from a volcano.
  7. 15. Rock formed from layers of sediment compacted and cemented over time.
Down
  1. 1. Point on Earth's surface directly above an earthquake’s focus.
  2. 2. These waves arrive first after an earthquake
  3. 3. Scale Measuring the intensity of shaking and damage from an earthquake.
  4. 5. Theory that explains how large sections of Earth's crust move and interact.
  5. 7. Underwater mountain chain formed at divergent plate boundaries.
  6. 8. Rock formed from cooled molten rock (magma or lava).
  7. 13. Domes Rounded mounds formed by slow, viscous lava piling near the vent.
  8. 14. Scale Measuring the magnitude (energy release) of an earthquake.