Unit 5 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. layer of Earth is the largest and thickest tsunamis, giant seawater waves caused by oceanic earthquakes
  2. 4. again
  3. 5. fit together but move against each other
  4. 8. A volcano that has not erupted for at least 10,000 years and is not likely to erupt again
  5. 9. A volcano that hasn’t erupted for a long time but could
  6. 11. to erupt again
  7. 12. Thin; rocky; outermost layer; two types: oceanic and continental
  8. 13. The study of the earth's makeup and processes that shape it
  9. 14. scale, Numbers describing the intensity of earthquakes based on the largest seismic wave recorded are measured using
Down
  1. 1. core, Solid; made of very hot metal; may be nearly as hot as the sun's surface, innermost layer
  2. 2. A volcano that has erupted in the past 10,000 years and is
  3. 3. explain unpredictable natural events
  4. 5. a gigantic wave of seawater caused by an earthquake in oceanic crust
  5. 6. core, the layer within Earth between the inner core and the mantle, which is made of very hot, liquid metal
  6. 7. tectonics, a theory that Earth’s crust and the solid top part of the mantle are broken up into sections
  7. 10. Jagged up-and-down lines show the energy of seismic waves