Clue's to Earth's Past
Across
- 1. The study of earth its physical features and history
- 3. Divergent boundaries form
- 4. Preserved remains or traces of living things
- 6. A theory that suggests geologic processes occur today the same way they did in the past
- 8. Determines age of rock using physical measurements
- 10. A scientist who studies fossils
- 12. Stacked up layers of sedimentary rock
- 13. Uses pieces of rock to age it with accuracy
- 14. Convergent boundaries form
- 15. Plate boundary where plates move toward each other
- 17. A disturbance that can cause magma/lava to seep into rocks
Down
- 2. States that rocks are deposited in layers with oldest at the bottom and youngest at the top
- 5. Plate boundary where plates move away from each other
- 7. A disturbance that can cause rocks to break
- 9. A break in Earth's crust
- 11. Rock formed when sediments are cemented and compacted.
- 16. Plate boundary where plates slide past each other