Across
- 3. Canal continent that is connected to Eurasia
- 5. a gap or space made by cleaving or splitting
- 7. The ocean that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea.
- 9. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
- 11. part of the earth between the core and the
- 12. state or process of changing
- 13. plate where two plates are moving toward each other.
- 14. the study of the record of the Earth's magnetic field in rocks, sediment, or archeological materials.
- 16. preserved remains
- 18. the quasi-periodic aggregation and dispersal of Earth's continental crust.
Down
- 1. when one tectonic plate slides beneath another plate at a subduction zone.
- 2. a fragment of crustal material formed on, or broken off from, one tectonic plate and accreted or "sutured" to crust lying on another plate.
- 4. a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates that move slowly over the underlying mantle.
- 6. one of the seven continents
- 8. the formation of new areas of oceanic crust.
- 10. world's second largest and second most-populous continent.
- 15. America a continent located in the western hemisphere, mostly in the southern hemisphere
- 17. SuperContinent
