Earth Science Crossword 1
Across
- 1. theory the Earth's continents slowly moved apart from each other
- 5. the Earth has an internal ______.
- 8. The Earth is ______________ billion years old.
- 10. movement of heat in fluids where hot rises and cold sinks
- 12. the Earth is not ____.
- 13. the study of Earth
- 14. scientist who proposed continental drift
- 15. supercontinent that all continents were believed to be a part of
Down
- 2. the innermost layer of the Earth
- 3. early scientific thinkers like Galileo would be _____ for making scientific claims that went against popular belief at their time
- 4. belief the Earth's surface developed in short time because of random disasters
- 6. belief the Earth's surface developed over the course of billions of years because of natural, ongoing processes
- 7. outermost layer of Earth
- 9. layer of Earth made of molten rock that is just below the crust
- 11. theory that Earth's crust gets moved because of heat cycling in the mantle