7E - Topic 3 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. are bends in the rock layers
  2. 3. are the broken up pieces of the Earth's crust
  3. 5. is a set of mountains
  4. 7. is a feature of Earth's surface that is much higher the land around it
  5. 8. occurs when one plate at a converging boundary is pushed down inside the Earth and the other bunches up
  6. 10. a theory that the continents have slowly drifted apart over time
  7. 11. are distinctive deep valleys in the oceans
  8. 12. is the edge where tectonic plates meet
  9. 13. according to the ____________ the lithosphere is broken up into large areas much like a cracked egg shell
  10. 14. is when 2 slides slide along the boundary in opposite directions
Down
  1. 2. is when 2 plates move apart from each other
  2. 4. is when 2 plates move towards each other
  3. 6. occur when rocks along side a crack in the rock layers move
  4. 7. occurs at converging boundaries when one plate is pushed up and it folds and faults
  5. 9. are long underwater mountain ranges