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Plate Tectonics Crossword

Across
A device that records ground movements caused by seismic waves as they move threw earth.
A device that uses sound waves to measure the distance to an object.
The shaking that results from the movement of rock beneath earths surface.
The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past.
A herbivorous genus pf late Permian and early Triassic period.
The measurement of an earthquakes strength based on seismic waves and movement along faults.
The point on earths surface directly above an earthquakes focus.
A force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume.
Stress that pushes masses if rock in opposite directions, in a sideways movement.
Down
A fern like plant that lived 250 million years ago.
Stress that stretches rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle .
The name of the single landmass that began to break apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents.
An extinct genus of reptile from the early Permian of southern Africa.
A large land form that has high elevation and a more or less level surface.
Stress that pushes masses of rock in opposite directions, in a sideways movement.
A break in earths crust along with rocks move.
The layer of rock that forms earths outer surface.
The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-oceanic trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
A German polar researchers, geophysicist and meteorologist.
A section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust.