vocab part 2 for science
Across
- 2. a series of extremely tall waves
- 4. the hypothesis that the continents move away from each other
- 6. a supercontinent that broke apart 200 million years ago forming our continents
- 8. when 2 plates move away from eachother
- 11. stress that pushes the mass in opposite directions
- 12. stress that stretches rock so it becomes thin in the middle
- 13. elongate depression of earths surface
Down
- 1. when 2 plates slide off eachother
- 3. a major belt of volcanoes that rims the pacific ocean
- 5. when 2 plates move towards eachother
- 7. when a oceanic plate sinks below a tectonic plate
- 9. a landform that is at last 1,000 feet high
- 10. stress that squeezes rock until it breaks or folds
- 12. a long narrow depression that forms at the boundary of tectonic plates