EARTH'S MECHANISM

4. era of the dinosaurs, 145 million years ago
6. Greek word which means "all earth".
7. compaction & deposition of swamp plants that lived million years ago.
9. Kind of fault which the hanging-wall block moves up and over the foot-wall block. The crust is being compressed.
11. process by which new ocean floor formed near the mid- ocean ridge and moves outward.
12. Wegener discovered that identical rocks could be found on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. These rocks were the same type and the same age.
13. Kind of fault which the hanging-wall block moves down with respect to the foot-wall block. The crust is being pulled apart.

1. Kind of fault which the rocks are sliding past each other horizontally, with a little to no vertical movement.
2. is also called "magnetic flip" north pole become south then vise versa.
3. evidence that these continents were once one is their shapes that actually connected pieces of a super continent.
5. preserved remains or traces of organism (plants & animals)from the remote past
8. a geophysicist and meteorologist, continental drift also explained why look-alike animal and plant fossils, and similar rock formations, are found on different continents.
10. a theory that explained how continents shift position on Earth's surface.