Across
- 2. The in South America and the Cascade Range in North America are formed by this type of convergence. (convergent plate boundary)
- 6. A long, narrow depression in the oceanic floor called ____ is also created in the subduction zone
- 7. takes place when a subducting slab sinks into the hot mantle because of a difference in temperature.
- 9. Reverse fault is another type of dip-slip fault where the block of Earth's crust pushes upward and along the dip angle.
- 10. Divergent boundaries between oceanic plates produce _______, a mountain system that is formed on the seafloor.
- 13. the thin, dense, and relatively young layer of Earth's crust that forms the ocean floor
- 14. _____ boundaries occur when two plates slide toward each other and form either a subduction zone (one plate moves underneath the other) or an orogenic belt.
Down
- 1. _____ refers to the movement of faults along the angle of the fault plane. The angle of movement is called the dip, while the movement is slip
- 3. the rigid, outermost shell of the Earth, encompassing the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle
- 4. The in the western Pacific Ocean is formed by this type of convergence.
- 5. the edges where two or more of Earth's tectonic plates meet.
- 8. resists movement of lithospheric plates.
- 11. When two plates move away from each other, a gap or rift between them is created.
- 12. The massive slabs that make up the Earth's lithosphere
- 15. A ______ is a dip-slip fault where a block that sits on a fault plane, called the hanging wall, slips downward with respect to the footwall along the dip angle.
