Plate Tectonics Crossword

Pieces of Earth's lithosphere that shift.
Place where two plates meet.
Large mountain like feature formed by magma release from the earths crust
Point underground where a earthquake originated.
Point above ground were a earthquake originated.
Shaking and trembling caused by the passing of two tectonic plates.
Volcano that has not erupted in over two-hundred years
Flat round volcano which produces little ash.
The movement of the ocean floor caused by new layers pushing old layers farther apart
Man who developed the theory of continental drift.
Discovered sea-floor spreading
Main driving force behind plate tectonics.
Action of old ocean crust falling back into the earth melting and repeating this process.
Type of stress that pulls on the crust to make it thinner.
Large area of flat land above sea level
Occurs when a earthquakes shaking turns loose soil into mud
Smaller earthquake that occurs after the larger earthquake occurs
Large wave of water that travels out from the epicenter of a earthquake that occurs in the ocean.
Stress caused by two masses of rock slipping past each-other which causes it to break or change shape.
A fold in rock that bends upward