Chapter 10 vocab words

4. Landform with low relief and low elevation.
5. A deep, underwater trough created by one plate subducting under another plate at a convergent plate boundary.
9. Parallel ridge that forms where blocks of crust move up or down along faults.
11. Parallel forces acting in opposite directions at a transform boundary.
13. Area of subsidence; region with low elevation.
14. Mountain made of layers of rocks that are folded.

1. The downward vertical motion of Earth’s surface.
2. The pulling force at a divergent boundary.
3. A change in the shape of a rock caused by stress.
6. The squeezing force at a convergent boundary.
7. An area of fractured pieces of crust along a large fault.
8. A curved line of volcanoes that forms parallel to a plate boundary.
10. The equilibrium between continental crust and the denser mantle below it.
12. The process that moves large bodies of Earth materials to higher elevations.