Across
- 1. The mostly-solid bulk of the earth's interior
- 3. Shells, bones, stone imprints of animals or microbes, exoskeletons, objects preserved in amber, petrified wood, coal, hair, oil, and DNA remnants
- 5. The outermost shell of a terrestrial planet
- 7. Where the new crust is generated as the plates pull away from each other
- 8. More than zero
- 9. Where the crust is destroyed as one plate dives under another
- 12. The very hot, very dense center of our planet
- 13. A large continuous mass of land conventionally regarded as a collective region
- 14. A supercontinent that incorporated almost all the landmasses on Earth
- 15. Continent in the Western Hemisphere
Down
- 2. A collection of facts or information that suggests whether something is true or false
- 4. A scientific theory that explains how major landforms are created as a result of Earth's subterranean movements
- 6. An explanation for why things work or how things happen
- 8. Regular and intelligible forms or sequences that can be found throughout nature
- 10. Less than zero
- 11. Continent in the Eastern Hemisphere
