Chapter 5 Crossword
Across
- 3. Spot An area where material from deep within Earth's mantle rises through the crust and melts to form magma
- 4. Any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock
- 8. arc Resulting volcanoes sometime create a string of islands
- 10. The transfer of heat by movement of a fluid
- 11. Spreading When mid-ocean ridges keep adding new material/crust to Earth
- 12. Ridges Mountain ranges in the middle of an ocean floor
- 13. Name of the supercontinent
- 14. of Fire One major belt of volcanoes
- 15. The measure of how much mass there is in a given volume of a substance
Down
- 1. The transfer of heat from materials touching/physical contact
- 2. The transfer of heat through waves/rays of light
- 5. When ocean floor sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle
- 6. Boundary When plates move away from each other
- 7. Tectonics Sea-floor spreading, Earth's plates, and plate motions are all combined into what theory
- 9. A molten mixture of rock-forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle