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Across
  1. 2. refers to a large wave that moves up and down instead of forward.
  2. 5. typically a low-lying triangular area located at the mouth of rivers where it meets an ocean, a sea, or an estuary.
  3. 6. waves that cause the most damage to buildings and other structures.
  4. 8. the highest mountain system and also the youngest in the world.
  5. 9. it occurs where two plates are pushing toward each other
  6. 11. flat and broad land areas that have no great changes in elevation when measured with reference to the mean sea level.
  7. 13. any sudden shaking of the ground caused by the passage of seismic waves through Earth’s rocks.
  8. 16. Largest mountain system in Europe
  9. 17. he proposed the continential drift theory.
  10. 18. defined as the natural physical features on the surface of the Earth.
  11. 21. small earthquakes that commonly precede a major earthquake.
  12. 23. Longest mountain range in the world.
  13. 24. the border between two tectonic plates
  14. 25. Oldest mountain range in North America
  15. 26. location on Earth's surface that have experienced active volcanic activities for a long period of time.
  16. 29. also called table mountains.
  17. 30. mountain that opens downward to a reservoir of molten rock called magma below the surface of the earth.
Down
  1. 1. Japanese word for "big wave in the port".
  2. 3. who developed and published "Theartrum Orbis Terrarum".
  3. 4. zone where two lithospheric plates move apart from each other
  4. 7. the study of the extended climatic conditions of past geologic ages.
  5. 10. crack across which the rocks have been offset first.
  6. 12. a seismic wave that moves through the interior of the earth.
  7. 14. refers to the forces and events that lead to a large structural deformation of Earth's lithosphere.
  8. 15. scientific study of landforms and the processes that shape them
  9. 19. crust the solid ground where you stand.
  10. 20. Fault Boundary is a zone between two plates that slide horizontally past one another.
  11. 22. elevated portions of land that are formed by geologic activities such as faulting.
  12. 27. a term derived from a Greek word "tekton".
  13. 28. Junction the point at which three plate boundaries meet.