Across
- 3. This fluid substance is made of melted earth. As it cools, new earth is formed.
- 9. What formed when the edges of continents crumpled and folded
- 10. Tropical plants in the arctic formed what type of evidence of continental drift
- 11. When one tectonic plate moves under another plate
- 12. These waves helped measure the seafloor depth
- 14. This scientist was able to prove that continents move by demonstrating that the seafloor spread
- 15. The very top of the earth’s surface
- 16. The technical term for a weatherman
- 18. The number of times the continents have reformed and split up
- 19. Layers of rock
- 20. The earth’s crust was moving away from each other along these oceanic ________________
Down
- 1. The word scientists use to describe the earth when all the land was a single mass
- 2. These happen when plates are grinding against each other
- 4. Who rejected Wegner’s ideas about continents in motion
- 5. These currents are in the mantle and they move the earth’s crust
- 6. Wegener, along with his brother, set a record for the longest time spent in the air in a ____________
- 7. Sections of the earth that are continually moving
- 8. Earth closer to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge was __________________
- 13. Scientists were surprised when they learned the seafloor was not this
- 17. This large island is on two plates
