Unit 4B Vocab. .. Emily Luong

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