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Earthquake Crossword Puzzle

by Shannon McClintock
Across
A collision causing a sink in the mantle
a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake
The name of a well known transform fault
The movement of heat where heat rises and cool sinks
a record produced by a seismograph
The sudden release of energy caused by shifting plates
A boundary formed when to plates rub against each other creating a fault
hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust
an elastic wave in the earth produced by an earthquake or other means
a mountain or hill, typically conical, having a crater or vent through which lava, rock fragments, hot vapor, and gas are or have been erupted from the earth's crust
Mountains formed from compression
A scientist who studies the forces make and shape the planet
Down
The super continent that was separated into other sections
Places between plates colliding into each other
A deep depression in the ocean floor
2 continent crust plates are pushed together or collide
12 major plates which are moved in various directions
A crust relatively thin and is part of the earth's crust that underlies the ocean basins
A fault that moves laterally
When tectonic plates slide past each other
an instrument that measures and records details of earthquakes, such as force and duration
a large elongated depression with steep walls formed by the downward displacement of a block of the earth's surface between parallel faults or fault systems
When two plates move opposite of each other sometimes leading to volcanoes and rift valleys
a crack in the Earth's crust typically associated with the boundaries between Earth's tectonic plates
The solid section from the center of the earth that is known to control gravity