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Down: 2) a glacier occupying a valley in a mountainous area. The movement of an alpine glacier is primarily governed by the underlying topography.4) a sudden release of energy within Earth, producing a shaking of the crust 5) rock formed by crystallization of magma 6) the movement of rock particles by surface erosion 7) a large, continent-sized piece of earth’s crust that moves in relation to other pieces 8) a boundary between tectonic plates in which the two plates move away from each other, and the new crust is created between them 11) a landform whose major characteristics are derived from endogenic processes or by erosional exposure of rock structures 12) vibrations or shock waves originating at the focus of an earthquake and transmitted through earth 13) the location in earth where motion originates in an earthquake 14) the total length of streams in a drainage basin divided by the drainage area 15) an accumulation of rock and sediment at the toe of a glacier 18) water flowing across the soil’s surface on a hill slope, usually resulting from precipitation falling faster than the ground can absorb it 19) a boundary between tectonic plates in which the two plates pass one another in a direction parallel to the plate boundary 20) a device for recording movements of earth’s crust, such as earthquakes 21) a vent in earth’s surface where lava emerges 22) a thick glacier hundreds to thousands of kilometers across, large enough to be only partly guided by underlying topography 23) the breakdown of rocks into smaller particles caused by application of physical or mechanical forces 24) molten rock beneath earth’s surface 26) a volcano with relatively gentle slopes formed by eruption of relatively fluid lavas 27) the breakdown of rocks or minerals through chemical reactions at Earth’s surface 30) the downslope movement of rock and soil at earth’s surface, driven mainly by air, water, or ice moving across the surface 33) an extremely long sea wave created by an underwater earthquake; the wave may travel hundreds of kilometers per hour 34) a fan shaped deposit of sediment formed where a stream emerges from a narrow canyon onto a wider valley floor 35) a deposit of sediment formed where a river enters a lake or an ocean 38) downslope movement of rock and soil at earth’s surface, driven mainly by the force of gravity acting on those materials 39) a nearly level surface along the shoreline, elevated above present sea level, formed by coastal erosion at a time when sea level at the location was higher than at present 42) a crust formed of relatively dense minerals, dominated by silicon and magnesium (an acronym for silicon-magnesium)43) the portion of earth above the core and below the crust 49) crust formed of relatively less dense minerals, dominated by silicon and aluminum (an acronym for silicon-aluminum

Across: 1) an accumulation of sand and gravel carried by meltwater streams from a glacier, usually deposited immediately beyond the terminal moraine from the glacier 3) the chemical and/or mechanical breakdown of rocks into smaller particles at earth’s surface 6) the general elevation of the sea surface, averaging out variations caused by waves, storms, and tides 9) the creation of new oceanic crust where 2 tectonic plates are diverging on the sea floor 10) an assemblage of landforms found in areas of intense subsurface chemical weathering that often include features such as caves and underground drainage 16) forces originating in the atmosphere, that aided by gravity, shape Earth’s surface; erosion by running water, glaciers, wind, and waves are examples-17) a theory describing and explaining the movement of large, continent-sized slabs of earth’s crust relative to one another 20) the slow downslope movement of soil caused by many individual, near-random particle movements such as those caused by burrowing animals or freeze and thaw 25) a vertical movement of earth’s crust, caused by the loading or unloading of the buoyant crusts 28) magma that reaches earth’s surface and erupts 29) rock formed by modification of other rock types, usually by heat and/or pressure 31) a boundary between tectonic plates in which the two plates more toward one another, destroying or thickening the crust 32) an accumulation of windblown silt 36) the ancient core of a continent 37) volcano formed by a mixture of lava eruptions and more explosive ash eruptions 39) rock formed by modification of other rock types, usually by heat and/or pressure 40) the geographic area that contributes runoff to a particular stream, defined with respect to a specific locations along that stream 41) rock formed through accumulation of many small rock fragments at earth’s surface 44) a characteristic shape of the land surface, such as a hill, valley, or floodplain 45) a condition in which a stream’s ability to transport sediment is balanced by the amount of sediment delivered to it 46) a river channel carved by water from a melting glacier 47) an accumulation of windblown sand, shaped by the wind 48) the stony surface of a desert soil formed by selective removal of fine particles by surface erosion 50) the quantity of water flowing past a point on a stream per unit time 51) a large mass of flowing, perennial ice 52) forces within Earth that affect its surface, such as plate tectonics, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes 53) a current in the surf zone along shoreline, parallel to the shore 54) the study of the shape of earth’s surface and the processes that modify it

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