Chapter 5 Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 3. vibrations that tell us about Earth's layers
  2. 7. thick layer of hot rock, below lithosphere
  3. 9. heat transfer that drives the plates
  4. 12. liquid metal layer of Earth
  5. 14. heat transfer, direct contact
  6. 15. the "supercontinent"
  7. 17. proposed the idea of continental drift
  8. 18. technology that uses sound echoes
  9. 20. generated by the liquid outer core
  10. 21. decreases as heat is added
Down
  1. 1. found mid-ocean ridges
  2. 2. definite volume but no definite shape
  3. 4. freshwater creature, no salt water!
  4. 5. soft part of upper mantle
  5. 6. organisms make energy without light
  6. 8. system of underwater mountains
  7. 10. crust + uppermost mantle
  8. 11. plates pull apart at a___boundary
  9. 13. discovery that ocean crust moves
  10. 14. idea that landmasses move
  11. 16. trace of an organism
  12. 19. transfer of heat through space