Unit 4B Vocabulary By: Ethan Lewis
Across
- 2. on a map, a line that connects points of equal elevation above sea level
- 6. above sea level
- 8. a boundary between two lithospheric plates are sliding past each other
- 9. rocky material that makes up the continents
- 10. formed where two sections of earth’s crust are colliding
- 12. portion of earth’s crust that lies beneath the oceans
- 13. mountains formed by the bending of rocks
Down
- 1. map that shows the shape and elevation of the land surface using contour
- 3. the process in which one lithospheric plate slides under another
- 4. mountains formed when rocks move along faults, leaving blocks of crust at different elevations
- 5. form where lithospheric plates are moving away from each other.
- 7. outermost layer of earth’s surface, which is rocky and solid; includes the crust and the rigid part of the upper mantle.
- 11. under sea mountain range that forms where two parts of earth’s crust are pushing apart.