Cross Test
Across
- 2. A ridge or swell moving through or along the surface of a large body of water.
- 3. A supercontinent that included all the landmasses of the earth before the Triassic Period
- 6. The outermost solid layer of a planet or moon.
- 8. A bend in a stratum of rock.
- 11. A long, narrow elevation on the ocean floor.
- 12. A sudden movement of the earth's crust caused by the release of stress along geologic faults.
- 15. The movement or formation of continents described by the theory of plate tectonics.
- 18. Related to earthquake or earth vibration.
- 19. The scientific study of the origin, history, and structure of the earth.
- 20. A very large ocean wave caused by an underwater earthquake or volcanic eruption.
Down
- 1. A long depression in the land surface formed by erosion in the earth's crust
- 4. Geophysicist most remembered for advancing the theory of continental drift
- 5. One of the sections of the earth's lithosphere, constantly moving in relation to the other sections.
- 7. A geologic process in which one edge of a crustal plate is forced below the edge of another.
- 9. A long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor.
- 10. A fracture in a rock formation caused by a shifting or dislodging of the earth's crust
- 13. A mountain or hill with a crater through which lava, hot vapor, and gas are released
- 14. The exertion of force by one body on the surface of another
- 16. Resulting from structural deformation of the earth's crust.
- 17. A hypothetical landmass that broke up into North America, Europe, and Asia.