| A | B |
| lithosphere | crust/solid upper mantle |
| mantle | layer |
| strike | dip formed straight line |
| drift | what continents appear to do |
| graben | sunken area between faults |
| core | earth's innermost layer |
| orogeny | mountain building process |
| fault | moving fracture |
| anticline | upward fold |
| wegener | continental drift author |
| shear | scissors-like force on plates |
| horst | blocks moving upward relative to graben |
| lateral | shear caused fault |
| asthenosphere | plastic -like mantle area |
| fold | force caused bent formation |
| normal | tension caused fault |
| reverse | thrust fault |
| crust | top earth layer |
| gutenberg | mantle/core boundary |
| moho | crust/mantle bondary |
| joint | nonmoving fracture |
| syncline | downwrd fold |
| convection | circulating heat cells |
| mesosphere | lower mantle |
| dip | tilted layer direction and angle |