3.1. Vocabulary Practice
Across
- 5. process of mountain formation
- 7. boundary point at which one tectonic plate meets another
- 9. stress produced by two tectonic plates moving apart
- 10. process of an oceanic plate being pushed under a continental plate
- 11. stress produced by two tectonic plates coming together
- 13. large area of flat-topped rock high above sea level
- 14. deep underwater valley
- 16. bending of rock layers resulting from the stress on the earth’s crust
- 17. process by which a new oceanic lithosphere is formed at the oceanic ridge as older materials are pulled away from the ridge
- 18. landmass above the fault
Down
- 1. the continents can move apart from each other, and have done so in the past.
- 2. stress produced by two tectonic plates sliding past each other horizontally
- 3. breaking of the crust and the sliding of the blocks of crust along the break
- 4. landmass below the fault
- 6. change in shape or volume of rocks
- 8. study of the movement and changes in the rocks that make up the earth’s crust
- 12. theory that continents float on the earth asthenosphere
- 15. mountain chains that form on top of ocean floors where tectonic plates pull apart