Year 9 Earth Science

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Across
  1. 2. The difference in power between a size 5 and size 6 earthquake
  2. 6. The wearing away of rock
  3. 8. Igneous rock with clearly visible crystals
  4. 9. Acting principal of Reservoir High School
  5. 11. A single area of magma that can push through a plate
  6. 12. A type of volcanic rock
  7. 13. The thinnest layer of the Earth
  8. 14. Rock formed by heat and pressure
  9. 17. The layer where tectonic plates are found
  10. 19. Lava underground
  11. 20. This crust is denser
  12. 22. The point on the surface of the Earth directly above an earthquake
  13. 24. This crust is thicker
  14. 26. Divergent plates can cause this
  15. 27. An element which is not commonly found in the Earth's crust
  16. 28. The point underground where an earthquake forms
Down
  1. 1. A break between different areas of rock where movement has occured
  2. 2. Dwayne Johnson
  3. 3. Main component of the Earth's core
  4. 4. Volcanic rock
  5. 5. The violent sudden shaking of the ground
  6. 7. The process where oceanic crust sinks below continental crust
  7. 8. The study of the Earth
  8. 10. The instrument used to measure earthquakes
  9. 15. Where two plates meet
  10. 16. An earthquake wave given the symbol P
  11. 18. Scale used to measure earthquake intensity
  12. 21. The type of boundary where plates scrape past one another
  13. 23. The super-continent proposed by Wegener
  14. 25. The best science teacher at Reservoir High School