Science Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. the idea that the continents slowly moved over Earth's surface.
  2. 5. where the Earth's lithosphere is broken into pieces separated by cracks.
  3. 6. the transfer of thermal energy by the movement of a fluid.
  4. 9. a plate boundary where two plates move past each other in opposite directions.
  5. 10. any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock.
  6. 11. the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
  7. 13. a mountain that forms in Earth's crust when molten material or magma reaches the surface.
  8. 14. a plate boundary where two plates move away from each other.
Down
  1. 1. the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle at a convergent boundary.
  2. 2. a plate boundary where two plates move toward each other.
  3. 4. The molten mixture of water and sediment down a beach caused by waves coming in at an angle.
  4. 5. when the continents were joined together in one supercontinent/landmass 300 million years ago.
  5. 7. when magma reaches the surface.
  6. 8. An area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust above.
  7. 12. the transfer of thermal energy from one particle of matter to another.