VolcanO's Crossword Knowledge Test

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Across
  1. 2. Very hot ash and lava erupted from a volcano that typically flowing downslope at great speed
  2. 3. Rock formed when hot lava is cooled
  3. 4. The granite under the ocean Ex: Basalt and gabbro.
  4. 7. the residue left after the burning of a substance.
  5. 10. An area where the Pacific plate meets the surrounding tectonic plates.
  6. 12. An area of the Earth’s mantle where hot plumes rise upward, forming volcanoes. As the crust above shift, the volcanoes are pushed off the hotspot and are no longer volcanic. New volcanoes are formed
  7. 15. A mountain from which lava, rock, ash, and volcanic gases is erupted.
  8. 16. Hot fluid in or below the Earth's crust. Lava or igneous rock is formed when cooled.
  9. 17. The point where two tectonic plates meet.
  10. 19. A mountain from which lava is erupted. Forms new land.
Down
  1. 1. The Earth's crust and the upper mantle.
  2. 5. When two plates interact by crashing into each other
  3. 6. Mudflow down a volcano. Very destructive.
  4. 8. The granite under land. Ex: Granite, sedimentary rocks, metamorphic rocks.
  5. 9. A sudden and violent shaking of the ground that typically causes lots of damage. Caused by a release of energy within the crust.
  6. 11. The middle and lower mantle. Malleable. The lithosphere rides on top of it.
  7. 13. A sideways and downward movement of a tectonic plate into the mantle beneath another plate.
  8. 14. Formed by oceanic-Oceanic Convergent or hotspot.
  9. 18. Hot molten rock erupted from a volcano