Lesson 1: Forces that Shape the Earth Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. a type of strain that creates a permanent change in the shape of a rock.
  2. 5. a type of strain that is NOT permanent in a rock.
  3. 6. the force that acts on a rock to change its shape or volume.
  4. 9. curved lines of volcanoes that form parallel to plate boundaries
  5. 10. form when there is a collision of two continental plates
  6. 11. forms when the tension causes the oceanic crust to spread
Down
  1. 1. forms when divergent boundaries cause and enormous split in the crust.
  2. 3. pulls on the crust; stretching rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle.
  3. 4. a change in a rocks shape; caused by stress
  4. 6. pushes a mass of rock in two opposite directions.
  5. 7. squeezes rock until it folds or breaks.
  6. 8. form as one plate goes under another plate during collision.