Earth's Interior and Continental Drift
Across
- 3. innermost layer composed of iron and nickel
- 5. Layer divided up into the tectonic plates
- 6. Supercontinent theorized by Alfred Wegener
- 8. Dense solid metal layer
- 10. The plastic layer in the mantle
- 13. middle compositional layer comprised of magnesium, silicon, and iron
- 14. Layer composed of liquid metal
Down
- 1. Predominate group of minerals in the crust composed of silicon and oxygen
- 2. Technology used to map the seafloor
- 4. The father of continental drift
- 7. outermost layer composed of silicon, aluminum, and oxygen
- 9. strong physical layer
- 11. Theory based on both the theory of continental drift and the theory of seafloor spreading
- 12. group of igneous rocks that cool to form new seafloor after exiting the Earth