Science Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. ridge: An undersea mountain range where new ocean floor is produced created by a divergent plate boundary.
  2. 4. field: The area of magnetic force around a magnet.
  3. 5. Wegner: A German scientist who proposed the theory of continental drift.
  4. 8. drift: Sections of the earth's crust that moves due to convection currents.
Down
  1. 1. spreading: The process that creates new sea floor as plates move away from each other at the mid-ocean ridge.
  2. 2. A supercontinent containing all of earths land that existed about 225 million years ago.
  3. 6. The preserved remains or traces of an organism that lived in the past
  4. 7. Hess: proposed the theory of mid-ocean ridge.