Emma Hedrick p-6 unit 4B vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. outer most layer of earths surface which is rocky and solid; includes the crust and the ridged part of the upper mantle
  2. 8. the process in which one lithosphere plate slides under another; occurs at converging plate boundaries
  3. 9. rocky material that makes up the continents; it is less dense and contains a greater amount of lighter colored minerals that oceanic crust
  4. 11. form where lithospheric plates are moving away from each other
  5. 12. mountains formed when rocks move along faults leaving blocks of crust at different elevations
  6. 13. on a map a line that connects points of equal elevation above sea level
Down
  1. 1. under sea mountain range that forms where two parts of earths crust are pushing apart
  2. 2. height above sea leval
  3. 4. portion of earths crust that lies beneath the oceans; it is thinner than continental crust
  4. 5. formed when two sections of earths crust are colliding
  5. 6. mountains formed by the bending of rocks
  6. 7. a boundary between two lithospheric plates are sliding past each other
  7. 10. map that shows the shape and elevation of the land surface using contour lines and shows other land features using symbols