Across
- 2. a theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust and many associated phenomena as resulting from the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates which move slowly over the underlying mantle.
- 5. a sudden and violent shaking of the ground
- 8. a long high sea wave caused by an earthquake
- 10. solid bulk of Earth's interior
- 12. any of the world's main continuous expanses of land (Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America).
- 13. a supercontinent
- 14. the upper layer of the earth's mantle
- 16. the hypothesis that the Earth's continents have moved over geologic time
- 17. hot fluid or semifluid material below or within the earth's crust
- 19. the person whoformulated the first complete statement of the continental drift hypothesis
Down
- 1. the formation of new areas of oceanic crust
- 3. name of wegeners theory
- 4. a mountain with magma inside
- 6. the rigid outer part of the earth, consisting of the crust and upper mantle.
- 7. a line of mountains connected by high ground.
- 9. its lightest, most buoyant rock layer.
- 11. the fraction of the pore space occupied by water
- 15. the innermost geologic layer of the planet Earth.
- 18. a fluid layer thick and composed of mostly iron and nickel that lies above Earth's solid inner core
- 20. the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat