Chapter 5 Earth Science Vocabulary Crossword
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
                                      
 
 
Down: 1) the assumption that the layers of rock in any undisturbed sequence of strata contain the oldest stratum at the bottom with the younger or later layers placed in order above it 2) (Flood) geologic time scale 3) molten rock in the earth’s interior 4) the secular model for the origin of all stars and planetary systems throughout the universe 5) the last of a series of supercontinents proposed by secular geologists that became the continents today through continental drift 9) a section of the earth’s crust that moves as a unit compared to other regions of the crust 11) the forces, energy, and processes that formed and reshaped the earth's continents, mountains, and ocean basins Across: 6) the motion of oceanic tectonic plates away from the mid-ocean ridges where mantle rocks rise to form new ocean crust7) the theoretical collection of rock layers in the order in which they were formed 8) a model of the plate tectonics that proposes that the continents we see today are formed during the one-year period of the Flood10) a model that explains the shape and arrangement of present continents and their features as the product of the slow motion of tectonic plates over millions of years12) when continents continually crash together, geologists believe these are formed 13) a rock layer in the sequence of stratum 14) the tectonic process by which relatively thin and denser oceanic crust slowly slides down and under more massive but less dense continental crust
 

 

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