Continental Drift
Across
- 5. The type of crust that is thicker and makes the continents.
- 8. After WW2 this man provided more evidence for continental drift, this time for the mechanism behind it.
- 9. This layer of the Earth is the heat source underneath the mantle, which causes convection.
- 11. The meteorologist who first proposed the theory that the continents drifted.
- 12. The type of crust found under the ocean. It is the seafloor.
- 13. The process that creates new sea floor as plates move away from each other at the mid-ocean ridges.
- 15. Continents fit together like one of these when they are cut out and moved together.
Down
- 1. Alfred Wegener noticed that the coast of South America seemed to fit into the coast of this continent, just like a jigsaw puzzle.
- 2. Another piece of evidence for continental drift - these large things also line up nicely when continents are pieced together.
- 3. A word starting with S that could describe the movement of convection.
- 4. What happens to temperature as you go deeper in the Earth?
- 6. Section of the Earth below the crust.
- 7. Alfred noticed that these were the same on different continents even though the continents were separated by oceans
- 10. The force in the mantle that causes tectonic plates to move.
- 14. When the bottom of the mantle is heated it begins to what?