Part two
Across
- 2. evidence that fossils are real
- 4. the boundary between magnetic plates that are moving away from each other
- 7. is a proposed driving force for plate motion in plate tectonics that occurs at mid-ocean ridges as the result of the rigid lithosphere sliding down the hot, raised asthenosphere below mid-ocean ridges
- 9. is the very slow creeping motion of Earth's solid silicate mantle as convection currents carry heat from the interior to the planet's surface
- 11. the study of alignmentof magnetic minerals in rock
- 12. is an area on Earth where two or more lithospheric plates collide
- 13. is the shaking of the surface of Earth resulting from a sudden release of energy in the lithosphere that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes can range in intensity
- 17. large-scale horizontal movements of continents relative to one another
- 18. zone of Earth’s mantle lying beneath the lithosphere and believed to be much hotter and more fluid than the lithosphere
- 19. is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object
- 20. a crust fragment formed on a tectonic plate
Down
- 1. a long undersea mountain range
- 3. is a geologic process in which tectonic plates—large slabs of Earth's lithosphere—split apart from each other
- 5. is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart
- 6. a supercontinent
- 8. the solid outer layer of earth that consists of the crust
- 10. is the quasi-periodic aggregation and dispersal of Earth's continental crust
- 14. the boundary between tectonic plates that are sliding past each other horizontally
- 15. was the vast superocean that encompassed planet Earth and surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea
- 16. theory dealing with the dynamics of Earth’s outer shell