Landforms and Mountains
Across
- 3. Ocean trenches are also called_______trenches.
- 4. A curved line of volcanoes that forms parallel to a plate boundary.
- 7. A collision between two continental plates can produce tall _______.
- 11. enormous splits in Earth's crust.
- 12. Deep underwater troughs created by an oceanic plate subducting under another plate at a convergent plate boundary.
- 14. when regions rise vertically with very little deformation this forms.
- 16. This process has rounded the peaks and lowered the elevations of the Appalachian Mountains.
- 17. Parallel ridges that form where blocks of crust move up or down along faults.
Down
- 1. Being at right angels to a line or plane.
- 2. The largest landforms on Earth are produced by this.
- 5. These are made of layers of rock that are folded.
- 6. An area of many fractured pieces of crust along a large fault.
- 8. These are created from repeated eruptions.
- 9. When two plates collide, one can go under the other and be forced into the mantel in a process called _______.
- 10. Where blocks of crust slide horizontally past each other.
- 13. Distinct landforms are produced by this.
- 15. volcanic mountains can form in the ocean where oceanic plates converge and one plate subducts under another one. These volcanoes emerge as _________.