Across
- 2. Continental ______ – The idea that continents move slowly over Earth’s surface.
- 3. Continental _____ – The steep slope where the continental shelf drops down to the deep ocean floor.
- 7. The idea that the processes we observe today worked the same way in the past and can be used to explain how the world was made.
- 10. Plate ______ – The theory that Earth’s outer shell is broken into large pieces that move slowly over the surface, shaping mountains, oceans, and earthquakes.
- 12. Creationism – the belief that God created the world thousands of years ago in a mature state, and it appears older than it is.
- 13. _____ plain – A wide, flat area on the deep ocean floor, usually covered with layers of sediment.
- 15. A crack in rock where it has broken apart but not necessarily moved.
- 16. Creationism – the belief that God created the world thousands of years ago and that geology was shaped primarily by the Flood.
- 20. _____ boundary – A place where two plates slide past each other horizontally, causing earthquakes.
- 21. Continental _____ – The underwater edge of a continent, including the shelf, slope, and rise.
- 22. ______ reversal – When Earth’s magnetic north and south poles switch places in history.
- 23. The rigid outer layer of Earth, made up of the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle.
- 25. An underwater mountain formed by volcanic activity.
- 26. Creationism – the belief that God created the world billions of years ago and that Genesis 1-2 should be interpreted as an analogy
- 28. _____ causes – the belief that God created and shaped the world mostly through the natural processes that He originally created.
- 31. The soft, partially melted layer of the mantle beneath the lithosphere, where rocks can slowly flow.
- 32. Continental _____ – The gently sloping area found at the base of the continental slope, made up of sediments that have slid or drifted down from the continent.
- 33. A break in Earth’s crust where rocks have moved past each other.
- 34. When rock layers bend instead of breaking, often forming mountains or ridges.
Down
- 1. _____ boundary – A place where two tectonic plates move apart, forming new crust.
- 3. A force that acts on rock, causing it to change shape or break.
- 4. _____ spreading – The process where new ocean crust forms at mid-ocean ridges and slowly moves outward, pushing older crust away.
- 5. _______ crust – The thicker, less dense layer of rock that forms the continents.
- 6. _______ crust – The thin, dense layer of rock that makes up the ocean floor.
- 8. When one tectonic plate slides beneath another into the mantle.
- 9. A type of stress that squeezes rocks together.
- 11. _____ boundary – A place where two plates move toward each other, often forming mountains in continental crust or trenches in oceanic crust.
- 14. – A deep, narrow valley on the ocean floor, often found near subduction zones.
- 17. Huge pieces of Earth’s outer layer (the lithosphere) that move slowly across the surface.
- 18. A giant “supercontinent” that existed hundreds of millions of years ago, before breaking apart into today’s continents.
- 19. The idea that Earth’s features formed mainly through sudden, violent events like the flood, and that the processes we observe today don’t fully explain how the world was made because these historical events don’t follow the slow pattern of today’s processes.
- 24. Mid-Ocean ____ – A long, underwater mountain range formed where new ocean crust is created at a divergent boundary.
- 27. _____ Naturalism – the belief that the material world is all there is and was formed entirely by natural processes without any divine involvement.
- 28. Continental _____ – The gently sloping area of the ocean floor that extends outward from a continent before it drops off sharply.
- 29. The thick layer of hot, solid rock beneath Earth’s crust that slowly flows over time and drives plate movement.
- 30. _____ causes – The belief that God created and shaped the world mostly through miracles.