This full-page activity is a fill-in-the-blank guide for a unit in middle school earth science about stresses and deformation of Earth’s crust. There are seven paragraph-long sections, each containing a boxed-in word bank. The themes for the sections are as follows. StressDeformations Faulting Faulted mountains and valleysFolding Fault or fold? Plateaus, domes, and the floating crust Some of the terms covered are anticline, syncline, ductile, rift valley, fault, fold, dome, plateau, mantle, con