Unit 4B by Samyam Dhakal 4th Period

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Across
  1. 2. height above sea level.
  2. 4. lines on a map, a line that connects points of equal elevation above sea level.
  3. 6. portion of earth’s crust that lies beneath the oceans; it is thinner than continental crust.
  4. 8. under sea mountain range that forms where two parts of earth’s crust are pushing apart.
  5. 12. map that shows the shape and elevation of the land surface using contour lines, and shows other land features using symbols.
  6. 13. mountains formed when rocks move along faults, leaving blocks of crust at different elevations.
Down
  1. 1. outermost layer of earth’s surface, which is rocky and solid; includes the crust and the rigid part of the upper mantle.
  2. 3. mountains formed by the bending of rocks.
  3. 5. rocky material that makes up the continents; it is less dense and contains a greater amount of lighter colored minerals than oceanic crust.
  4. 7. form where lithospheric plates are moving away from each other.
  5. 9. the process in which one lithospheric plate slides under another; occurs at converging plate boundaries.
  6. 10. a boundary between two lithospheric plates are sliding past each other.
  7. 11. formed where two sections of earth’s crust are colliding.