4B VOCAB

4. lines on a map, a line that connects points of equal elevation above sea level. 4. Lithosphere- outermost layer of earth’s surface, which is rocky and solid; includes the crust and the rigid part of the upper mantle.
5. ridges under sea mountain range that forms where two parts of earth’s crust are pushing apart
7. mountains mountains formed by the bending of rocks.
10. map map that shows the shape and elevation of the land surface using contour
11. height above sea level.
12. boundary a boundary between two lithospheric plates are sliding past each other.
13. block mountains mountains formed when rocks move along faults, leaving blocks of crust at different elevations.

1. crust portion of earth’s crust that lies beneath the oceans; it is thinner than continental crust.
2. and shows other land features using symbols.
3. the process in which one lithospheric plate slides under another; occurs at converging plate boundaries
6. boundary form where lithospheric plates are moving away from each other.
8. boundary formed where two sections of earth’s crust are
9. crust rocky material that makes up the continents; it is less dense and contains a greater amount of lighter colored minerals than oceanic crust