Arianna's Crossword

1. A large, special meal, often for many people, to celebrate someone or something
4. plates The name of plates that move towards each other and collide
6. American A member of any of the groups of people that lived in North America before the Europeans arrived
7. The ancient supercontinent, comprising all the present continents joined together, which began to break up about 200 million years ago
8. A number by which another number is to be divided
10. A list at the back of a book, explaining difficult or unusual words and expressions used in the text
12. English ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620
13. Group of people who make a journey, often a long and difficult one, to a special place for religious reasons
15. idea The most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about
18. plates Tectonic plates that slip horizontally past one another
19. Gigantic pieces of the Earth's crust and uppermost mantle
20. A set of rules for self-governance established by the English settlers who traveled to the New World on the Mayflower
21. A number to be divided by another number

2. A line that shows the time and the order in which events have happened
3. Scientific study of the deformation of the rocks that make up the Earth's crust and the forces that produce such deformation
5. details Specific pieces of information in a piece of writing that support the main idea or the topic sentence
9. text A piece of non-fiction writing that aims to educate or inform the reader about a topic
11. A result obtained by dividing one quantity by another
14. Refers to the result of one or more multiplications
16. The name of two whole numbers that if multiplied give us a product
17. plates Two tectonic plates that move away from each other