PLATE TECTONICS Crossword

The type of stress that squeezes and shortens.
Stress that stretches and pulls a body of rocks apart.
Distorts a body of rock by pushing parts of the rock in opposite directions.
Cracks and fractures.
Materials respond to stress by bending or deforming without breaking.
A fold in which the oldest layer is in the center of the fold.
A fold in which the youngest layer is in the center of the fold.
Horizontal or almost horizontal.
________ faults : A fault in which the hanging wall moves downward. relative to the footwall.
________ fault: When compression causes the hanging wall to move upward relative to the footwall.
__________ fault : The rock on either side of the fault plane slides horizontally in responses to shear stress.
The theory that explains how new ocean crust is formed at ocean ridges and destroyed at deep sea trenches.
Father of plate tectonics?
Earths magnetic field is created by the movement of molten iron in the outer core.
___________boundary occurs when plates slid past each other deforms crust.
Cooler mantle sinks, is heated as it moves towards the core, then rises and is cooled again.
____________ boundaries form above rising currents in the mantle.
__________ boundaries form above sinking currents.
Ocean mountain ranges.
Long, narrow depressions in the ocean floor.