Vocabulary Unit 5 | Part 1

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Across
  1. 5. Stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks
  2. 8. A plate boundary where 2 plates move away from each other.
  3. 9. The name of the single landmass that broke apart 200 millions years ago and gave rise to todays continents
  4. 10. A series of extremely long waves caused by a large and sudden displacement of the ocean
  5. 11. Stress that streatches rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle
  6. 12. Stress that pushes a mass of rock in oposite directions
  7. 13. Long narrow depression on the seafloor that forms at the boundary of tectonic plates where one plate is pushed or subducts beneath another
  8. 14. of fire A major belt of volcanos that rims the Pacific ocean.
Down
  1. 1. A plate boundary where 2 plates move past each other in opposite directions
  2. 2. A plate boundary where 2 plates move towards each other
  3. 3. Elongate depression of the Earth's surface
  4. 4. A landform that rises at least 1,000 feetor more above a surrounding area
  5. 6. The process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent boundary
  6. 7. The hypothesis that the continents slowly move across the Earth's suface