The Changing Continents Over Time

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Across
  1. 4. Happened during the early Cenozoic period
  2. 5. plates collide
  3. 6. plates split and spread apart
  4. 7. subduction takes place
  5. 9. occurs from verification of various types of ___________ Measurements
  6. 12. sliding plates (gravity pushing)
  7. 14. fault plates slide horizontally
  8. 16. Happened when the minor supercontinent of Gondwana separated into multiple continents
Down
  1. 1. At the _______ gravitational pull has decreased in the controversial hypothesis
  2. 2. friction resistance to the movement of the subducting plates
  3. 3. Controversial hypothesis: Earth's _______ at its surface has increased
  4. 8. Resistant to the flow exerted
  5. 10. single ocean surrounding Pangaea
  6. 11. Developed continental drift theory
  7. 13. Happened in the Early-Middle Jurassic Period
  8. 15. resistance along transformation faults and in subduction zones