Across
- 1. Period of extensive ice sheet coverage
- 6. A former supercontinent
- 8. An undersea mountain chain where sea-floor spreading occurs
- 9. "Her Deepness" holds the record for the deepest walk on the seafloor
- 11. The climate of past geological eras, before direct instrumental records
- 13. Shaking of the ground caused by the sudden release of energy in the Earth's crust
- 14. A break in the Earth's crust where movement occurs
- 16. A boundary where plates slide past each other
- 18. where a continent and ocean meet, may be active or passive
- 19. Geologist who mapped the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, proving plate tectonics
- 21. The layer between the Earth's crust and core
- 23. The process where one plate is forced beneath another at a convergent boundary
- 24. Came up with the idea of continental drift
- 26. A deep valley on the ocean floor formed at a subduction zone
- 27. The Earth's outermost, thin layer
Down
- 2. One of Earth's main, very large, continuous landmasses,
- 3. A boundary where plates move away from each other
- 4. The process of particles settling and accumulating on the seafloor
- 5. A valley that forms where two plates move apart
- 7. Cylinder of ocean or lake floor sediments that records past environmental changes.
- 10. The process where new oceanic crust is formed at a mid-ocean ridge and pushes older crust away
- 12. The largest ocean
- 15. Inventor of the Aqua-Lung, an early form of scuba diving
- 17. A boundary where two plates collide
- 20. The theory that the continents slowly move across the Earth's surface
- 22. Cylinder drilled from ice sheets, containing trapped air bubbles
- 25. A vent in the Earth's crust through which lava, gas, and ash erupt
