Pangea & Contiental Drift
Across
- 3. A supercontinent
- 4. Using your past knowledge and available facts to try and predict what might happen or come up with an explanation
- 6. Records – The remains or imprints of organisms from earlier geological periods
- 9. When two plates collide
- 11. Drift Describes one of the earliest ways geologists thought continents moved over time.
- 13. Spreading – The formation of the new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of the magma at mid-ocean ridges
Down
- 1. The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle
- 2. Tectonics Theory dealing with the earth’s dynamics of earth’s lithosphere and mantle to explain the change in continents over time
- 5. One plate going under another
- 7. device that measures movements of the ground
- 8. When two plates separate
- 10. Study of earth science
- 12. When two plates slide