Vocabulary 4b (Kennan Pham

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