Across
- 3. – A supercontinent
- 4. – Using your past knowledge and available facts to try and predict what might happen or come up with an explanation
- 6. Records – The remains or imprints of organisms from earlier geological periods
- 9. – When two plates collide
- 11. Drift – Describes one of the earliest ways geologists thought continents moved over time.
- 13. Spreading – The formation of the new areas of oceanic crust, which occurs through the upwelling of the magma at mid-ocean ridges
Down
- 1. – The rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle
- 2. Tectonics - Theory dealing with the earth’s dynamics of earth’s lithosphere and mantle to explain the change in continents over time
- 5. – One plate going under another
- 7. – device that measures movements of the ground
- 8. – When two plates separate
- 10. – Study of earth science
- 12. – When two plates slide