Chapter 5 Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 4. the molten mixture of rock forming substances, gases, and water from the mantle
  2. 8. the transfer of thermal energy by the movement of a fluid
  3. 9. the transfer of thermal energy from the particle of matter to another
  4. 10. breaks in earth's crust where rocks have slipped past each other
  5. 11. any trace of an ancient organism that has been preserved in rock
  6. 12. a plate boundary where 2 plates move toward each other
  7. 14. the transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves
  8. 15. a plate boundary where 2 plates move away from each other
Down
  1. 1. continents were joined together in a supercontinent about 300 million years ago
  2. 2. a measure of how much mass there is in a given volume of a substance
  3. 3. a plate boundary where 2 plates move past each other in opposite directions
  4. 5. the process by which oceanic crust sinks beneath a deep-ocean trench and back into the mantle
  5. 6. one major belt of volcanos
  6. 7. deep valley along the ocean floor beneath which oceanic crust slowly sinks towards the mantle
  7. 13. an area where magma from deep within the mantle melts through the crust above it