Green Sheet Vocab

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Across
  1. 5. a supercontinent comprising all the continental crust of the earth
  2. 8. HASS-Harry Hammond Hess (May 24, 1906 – August 25, 1969)
  3. 10. the remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form
  4. 12. DRIFT-Continental drift is the hypothesis that the Earth's continents
  5. 13. CRUST- THE PORTION OF THE EARTH'S CRUST THAT WE WALK ON
  6. 14. long, seismically active submarine ridge system situated in the middle of an ocean basin
  7. 15. FIELD-a region around a magnetic material
Down
  1. 1. sideways and downward movement of the edge of a plate of the earth's crust
  2. 2. SPREADING-the formation of new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of magma
  3. 3. OF PLATE TECHTONICS-Plate tectonics is a scientific theory that explains how major landforms
  4. 4. TRENCH-Deep ocean trenches are steep-sided depressions in the ocean bottom
  5. 6. A VERY HARD ROCK
  6. 7. dark, fine-grained volcanic rock
  7. 9. CRUST- THE CRUST PORTION OF THE EARTH'S CRUST
  8. 11. PLATE-A tectonic plate is a massive slab of solid rock
  9. 16. WEGENER-Alfred Wegener, in full Alfred Lothar Wegener, (born November 1, 1880, Berlin, Germany