Across
- 2. Is the equilibrium between continental crust and the denser mantle below it
- 4. squeezing stress
- 6. stress that pulls something apart
- 7. areas of subsidence and regions with low elevation
- 10. mountains are made of layers of rocks that are folded
- 12. flat regions with high elevations
- 15. mountain are parallel ridges that form where blocks of crust move up or down along faults
- 16. zone an area of many fractured pieces of crust along a large fault
Down
- 1. arc a curved line of volcanoes that forms parallel to a plate boundary
- 3. a change in the shape of rock caused by stress
- 5. trenches are deep underwater troughs created by an oceanic plate subducting under another plate at a convergent plate boundary
- 8. parallel forces acting in opposite directions
- 9. the downward motion of earth's surface
- 11. the upward motion of earth’s surface
- 13. faults where blocks of crust slide horizontally past each other
- 14. is an extensive area of level or rolling land