Across
- 5. a trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock, evidence of the organisms living millions of years ago
- 8. where plates divide or diverge from each other
- 9. breaks in earths crust where rocks have slipped past each other
- 12. the measure of how much mass there is in a given volume of a substance
- 13. heating and cooling of a fluid, changes in the fluids density
- 16. where plates come together
- 17. the theory that the continents were all joined together at one time to form a supercontinent called pangaea
Down
- 1. where two plates slip past each other
- 2. adds more crust to the ocean floor, molten material erupts through this valley
- 3. where the oceanic crust bends downward
- 4. heat transferred through touch
- 6. where pieces of Earth's crust diverge on land, a deep valley called
- 7. the process by which ocean floor sinks beneath a deep ocean trench and back into the mantle
- 10. is an area where material from deep within earths mantle rises through the crust and melts to form magma
- 11. a mountain that forms in earths crust when molten material or magma, reaches the surface
- 14. The transfer of energy that is carried in rays
- 15. heat transfer by the movement of a liquid or fluid
