Chapter 5
Across
- 3. Ocean Ridges Form long chains of mountains that rise up from the ocean floor
- 5. The transfer of energy that is carried in rays like light
- 7. Current The flow that transfers heat within a fluid
- 9. The process by which the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep- ocean trench and back into the mantle again
- 11. Drift Wegener's idea that continents slowly moved over Earth's surface
- 12. Boundary Plates come together, or converge
- 13. of Fire 1 major belt of volcanoes
- 14. Floor Spreading Mid - Ocean ridges continually add new material to the ocean floor
- 15. Spot An area where material from deep within Earth's mantle rises through the crust and melts to form magma
Down
- 1. Heat transfer between materials that are touching
- 2. The supercontinent
- 4. Boundary Plates slip past each other
- 6. Boundary Plates move apart, or diverge
- 8. Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock
- 10. The measure of how much mass there is in a given volume of a substance
- 12. Heat transfer by the movement of a fluid