Forces of the Earth Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. __________ spreading center under the ocean where ridge push occurs.
  2. 4. ___________ pulling force exerted by a cold oceanic plate plunging into the mantle due to density, weight and gravity.
  3. 7. ___________ Drift - theiry that all continents were once joined as one continent.
  4. 8. ____________ mechanical layer of the earth that is made up of the crust and the cooler upper mantle.
  5. 9. __________ atoms of the same element that have different atomic weights.
Down
  1. 1. _______________ Navy scientist who suggested theory of seafloor spreading.
  2. 3. ___________Time Scale - time units based on fossils contained in the rocks.
  3. 5. ______________ process of heat transfer in the Earths mantle. One process that drives Plate Tectonics.
  4. 6. _____________ time it takes for half of a radioactive parent atom to decay into a stable daughter product.