Tectonics 2.0

5. The plates make up this layer of the Earth.
7. German for Continental Drift
10. Common result of transform plates.
12. Describing what you can directly see.
13. This is formed between two divergent plates.
15. Geologists in the early 1900's explained Wegener's observations by suggesting these existed.
17. Rock layers that are broken and uneven.
19. Wegener believed all the continents were once attached, he called this supercontinent this.
20. When plates are moving apart.
22. Common result of subduction.
23. Force that drives tectonic plate motion.

1. The guy who came up with the original idea of Continental Drift
2. The belief that the continents have been moving across the planet over time.
3. A break between two tectonic plates
4. Soil types and Fossils
5. The first observation that Wegener made his inference based on.
6. We now know that continents move because they are attached to these.
8. The human tendency to only look for evidence for what you already think is true.
9. Goo that the plates are floating on.
11. Explanations of what you see, valid unless observations disprove them.
14. Common result of two continental plates converging.
16. When plates are moving together.
18. When one plate pushes under another.
21. When two plates are moving next to each other.