Science
Across
- 3. Genus of fossilized woody plants known from rocks that have been dated 300 to 200 million years ago
- 4. Wegener noticed that the coastlines of South America and this continent seemed to fit together like puzzle pieces
- 5. Zone where old crust sinks
- 7. The scientific term for Earth’s outer shell broken into moving slabs
- 9. Range Alfred Wegener’s clue, matching mountains across seas
Down
- 1. Vast superocean that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea
- 2. Alfred Wegener’s profession, besides being a meteorologist
- 4. The type of fossil evidence Wegener used to support his theory—plants and
- 6. Spreading Geological process where tectonic plates diverge, and new oceanic
- 8. Alfred Wegener used these matches to argue continents moved