Layers of Earth, Drift, Seafloor Spread
Across
- 4. Method of heat transfer that creates circular currents driven by differences in density
- 6. Made of solid Iron and nickle
- 9. Old crust is recycled in one of these
- 13. _____ data is used by scientists to "see" inside the Earth
- 14. The _________ crust is the least dense layer (what we live on top of)
- 15. technology used to map the sea floor during WWII
- 16. rocky outer part of Earth (includes crust and the upper mantle)
Down
- 1. Scientist who proposed continental drift
- 2. Hot, dense rock layer between the crust and outer core
- 3. The boundary between the crust and the mantle
- 5. Continental drift theory was rejected by mainstream science because it was missing a _________
- 6. ______ inside new rock points to the magnetic north of the Earth
- 7. The only liquid layer of the Earth (creates the magnetic field).
- 8. Continental ______= the theory that the continents were once together as one supercontinent
- 10. Scientist who discovered seafloor spreading
- 11. The _________ crust is thinner than the continental crust
- 12. _______ evidence shows that we find the same species of plants and animals on different continents
- 17. New sea floor is created here