Plate Tectonics

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Across
  1. 2. the most outer solid portion of the planet earth
  2. 4. the outer part of the Earth's crust
  3. 7. the coast of South America seems to fit into the coast of this continent like jigsaw puzzle
  4. 9. a theory that believed the hot earth cooled into cracked plates of land
  5. 11. the scientist who first proposed the theory that the continents drifted
  6. 12. a supercontinent where all current continents fit together
Down
  1. 1. one tectonic plate slides under another
  2. 3. the theory of Continental _______
  3. 5. the section of Earth below the crust
  4. 6. deposits prove that continents have drifted because this mineral in only found where there used to be tropical vegetation
  5. 8. paleontologists noticed these were the same on continents separated by oceans
  6. 10. the sea floor pulls apart due to continental drift