Wegner & Plate Tectonics Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 3. When two plates slide past each other
- 7. the theory that states that the continents used to be together in a supercontinent and have drifted apart over time is the Theory of...
- 8. Two plates drifting away from each other
- 11. these two land formations occur at a subduction zone.
- 15. occurs when an oceanic plate converges with a continental plate
- 16. Wegner noticed that Mountain ranges of different areas had sediment layers that were the same ______
- 17. The scientist that discovered sea-floor spreading
- 18. occurs at a transform boundary
Down
- 1. This was a type of evidence that Wegner proposed using the remains of plant and animal species from different continents
- 2. No one in the scientific community believe Wegner's Theory because he could not prove how the plated ________ apart.
- 4. occur when two oceanic plates diverge
- 5. Two plates colliding towards each other
- 6. a large subduction zone that causes a chain of volcanoes in an area is called The ____ ___ ____.
- 9. occur when two continental plates converge
- 10. occurs when two continental plates diverge
- 12. this evidence was left behind by glaciers
- 13. The scientist that came up with the Theory of Continental Drift
- 14. Wegner noticed that the coastlines of South American and Africa fit together like a...