Week 8 Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. A break in Earth's crust along which rocks move (p89)
  2. 4. A force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume (p102)
  3. 6. A type of fault where the hanging wall slides upward; caused by compression in the crust (p105)
  4. 7. A deep valley that forms where two plates move apart (p89)
  5. 9. A type of fault in which rocks on either side move past each other sideways with little up or down motion (p105)
  6. 10. A plate boundary where two plates move away from each other (p87)
  7. 11. Stress that squeezes rock until it folds or breaks (p103)
  8. 13. The theory that pieces of Earth's lithosphere are in constant motion, driven by convection currents in the mantle (p87)
  9. 14. A plate boundary where two plates move toward each other (p87)
Down
  1. 1. A large landform that has high elevation and a more or less level surface (p109)
  2. 2. A type of fault where the hanging wall slides downward; caused by tension in the crust (p104)
  3. 4. Stress that pushes masses of rock in opposite directions, in a sideways movement (p103)
  4. 5. A plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions (p87)
  5. 8. A section of the lithosphere that slowly moves over the asthenosphere, carrying pieces of continental and oceanic crust (p86)
  6. 12. Stress that stretches rock so that it becomes thinner in the middle (p103)