Chapter 5 Vocabulary
Across
- 2. earth's outer shell broken into pieces
- 5. A mountain that forms from molten material
- 6. plates move apart
- 7. plates come together
- 8. plates slip past each other
- 11. A theory of plates tectonics that states that earth's plates are in slow movement
- 13. breaks in Earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other
- 15. Energy carried in rays
Down
- 1. Wegener's theory or what he called the supercontinent
- 3. where the ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench
- 4. Continents slowly move away or together
- 7. Heat transferred by the movement of fluid
- 9. Any trace of ancient organisms that are in a preserved rock
- 10. Heat transferred by materials that are touching
- 12. when magma reaches the surface
- 14. molten mixture of rock-forming substances