Chapter 10 vocab
Across
- 6. The process that moves large bodies of Earth materials to higher elevation
- 8. trench: A deep, underwater through created by one plate subducting under another plate at a convergent boundary
- 9. arc: A curved line of volcanoes that forms parallel to a plate boundary
- 11. The downward vertical motion of Earth’s surface
- 14. An area with low relief and high elevation
Down
- 1. The squeezing force at a convergent boundary
- 2. Area of subsidence; region with low elevation.
- 3. mountain: Parallel ridge that forms where blocks of crust move up or down along faults.
- 4. A change in the shape of rock caused by stress
- 5. Landform with low relief and low elevation
- 7. zone: An area of many fractured pieces of crust along a large fault
- 10. The equilibrium between continental crust and the denser mantle below it
- 12. Parallel forces acting in opposite directions at a transform boundary
- 13. mountain: Mountain made of layers of rocks that are folded