Across
- 3. Arc String of islands
- 8. Weak spot in the crust where molten material comes to the surface.
- 9. scale A way to classify earthquakes
- 11. a sudden and violent shaking of the ground
- 12. of Fire Volcanic belt formed by many volcanoes that rim the Pacific Ocean
- 13. eruptions flow easily, dark colored, oozes quietly from the vent and flows for many kilometers.
- 14. eruptions light colored, thick and sticky, builds up in the volcano’s pipe until there is enough
- 17. bowl-shaped area that may form at the top of a volcano
- 18. Waves an elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake
Down
- 1. Flow Are covered by lava as it comes out of the volcano
- 2. Boundary Plates push away
- 4. spot area where material from deep within the mantle rises and then melts, forming magma.
- 5. molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle.
- 6. Boundary Plate come together
- 7. Long tube in the ground that connects the magma chamber to Earth’s surface
- 8. An opening where molten rock and gas leave the volcano
- 10. Andreas Fault separates Pacific plate from the North American plate
- 15. Tectonics a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust
- 16. Crust the thin part of the earth's crust that is underneath the ocean basins