Across
- 2. a relatively flat-topped area
- 4. thickened areas of continental material that counterbalance the parts of a mountain that rise above Earth's surface; detected by gravitational and seismic studies
- 6. cycle of processes that form all mountain ranges, resulting in broad, linear regions of deformation that you know as mountain ranges but in geology are known as orogenic belts
- 7. squeezing force that can cause the intense deformation--folding, faulting metamorphism, and igneous intrusions--associated with mountain building
- 8. condition of equilibrium that describes the displacement of Earth's mantle by Earth's continental and oceanic crust
- 9. slow process of Earth's crust rising as the result of the removal of overlaying material
Down
- 1. mountain that forms when large pieces of crust are tilted, uplifted, or dropped downward between large normal faults
- 3. the change in elevation of the crust
- 5. mountain that forms when large regions of Earth are forced slowly upward without much deformation