Earth Dynamics Extra Credit
Across
- 1. The upward vertical motion of Earth's surface.
- 5. A curved line of volcanoes that forms parallel to a plate boundary.
- 8. Made of layers of rocks that are folded.
- 11. A change in the shape of rock caused by stress.
- 12. Areas of subsidence and regions with low elevation.
- 13. Parallel forces acting in opposite directions.
- 14. Stress that pulls something apart.
- 15. An area of many fractured pieces of crust along a large fault.
Down
- 2. Flat regions with high elevations.
- 3. Where blocks of crust slide horizontally past each other.
- 4. An extensive area of level or rolling land.
- 6. Squeezing stress
- 7. The equilibrium between continental crust and the denser mantle below it.
- 9. Deep, underwater troughs created by an oceanic plate subducting under another plate at a convergent plate boundary.
- 10. The downward vertical motion of Earth's surface.