Unit 4B Vocab

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