Vocabulary Choice Board (Part 3)

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Across
  1. 1. extremely deep areas in the ocean that are created by a subducting plate
  2. 2. stress that pushes masses of rock in opposite directions, in a sideways movement
  3. 3. A major belt of volcanoes that rims the Pacific Ocean
  4. 5. A landform that rises at least 1,000 feet (300 meters) or more above its surrounding area
  5. 7. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
  6. 9. Stress that stretches rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle
  7. 13. The hypothesis that states that the continents once formed a single landmass, broke up, and drifted to their present locations
Down
  1. 1. A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions
  2. 4. The name of the single landmass that broke apart 200 million years ago and gave rise to today's continents
  3. 6. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
  4. 8. A giant wave usually caused by an earthquake beneath the ocean floor.
  5. 10. The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent plate boundary.
  6. 11. Stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks
  7. 12. Elongate depression of the Earth's surface