3.1. Vocabulary Practice

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Across
  1. 5. process of mountain formation
  2. 7. boundary point at which one tectonic plate meets another
  3. 9. stress produced by two tectonic plates moving apart
  4. 10. process of an oceanic plate being pushed under a continental plate
  5. 11. stress produced by two tectonic plates coming together
  6. 13. large area of flat-topped rock high above sea level
  7. 14. deep underwater valley
  8. 16. bending of rock layers resulting from the stress on the earth’s crust
  9. 17. process by which a new oceanic lithosphere is formed at the oceanic ridge as older materials are pulled away from the ridge
  10. 18. landmass above the fault
Down
  1. 1. the continents can move apart from each other, and have done so in the past.
  2. 2. stress produced by two tectonic plates sliding past each other horizontally
  3. 3. breaking of the crust and the sliding of the blocks of crust along the break
  4. 4. landmass below the fault
  5. 6. change in shape or volume of rocks
  6. 8. study of the movement and changes in the rocks that make up the earth’s crust
  7. 12. theory that continents float on the earth asthenosphere
  8. 15. mountain chains that form on top of ocean floors where tectonic plates pull apart