Rowan's Dynamic Earth Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 4. The crust that is the outermost layer of earth.
- 7. The geologist that came up with the idea of continental drift.
- 9. Juan De Fuca is an example of this.
- 10. The woman who was tasked with mapping the ocean floor in the year 1952.
- 12. An event that happens only every 780,000 years in which the magnetic polarities of earth switch.
Down
- 1. The theory that was turned into plate tectonics today.
- 2. A dark, volcanic rock, divergent boundaries are made up of this.
- 3. A crack in the Earth, caused by a divergent plate boundary of two continental plates pulling apart.
- 5. An event caused from a transform plate boundary of plates sliding past each other.
- 6. The innermost part of earth, it is very hot.
- 8. Caused from subduction, or oceanic divergent plate boundaries pulling apart.
- 11. The famous supercontinent, comes from the Greek words pan, which means all or entire, and gaea which means earth.