Eliza's Vocab part 2 crossword
Across
- 1. A series of extremely long waves caused by a large and sudden displacement of the ocean, usually the result of an earthquake below or near the ocean floor
- 4. The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary
- 5. Elongate depression of the Earth's surface
- 7. Stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks
- 8. Long, narrow depression on the seafloor that forms at the boundary of tectonic plates where one plate is pushed or subducts, beneath another
- 10. Boundary A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
- 11. Stress that stretches rock so it becomes thinner in the middle
- 12. of Fire A major belt of volcanos that rims the Pacific Ocean
- 13. Stress that pushes a mass of rock in opposite directions
Down
- 2. A landform that rises at least 1,000 feet (300 meters) or more above it's surrounding area
- 3. Boundary A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other
- 6. Boundary A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other
- 7. Drift The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across earths surface
- 9. The name of the single landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents