Crust Movement Vocabulary

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